Kate Morton

Kate Morton
Kate Mortonis an international bestselling Australian author. Morton has sold more than 10 million books in 38 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports". The award-winning author has written five novels: The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours,The Secret Keeper, and The Lake House, which was published in October 2015...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
children past parent
Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.
girl eye mirrors
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.
children heart responsibility
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.
doors mets wanted
Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
might events remember
Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!
book writing successful
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
book feelings adults
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
writing thinking people
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
book given wanted
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
passion writing stories
I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
writing process writing-process
I love the structural part of the writing process.
writing way might
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
retrospect becoming realising
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
children adults ifs
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.