Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsorwas an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 romantic novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. She wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 October 1919
CountryUnited States of America
knowing people suspects
There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.
american-author dogs
The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.
american-author belonged except
It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
tired beer night
She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended ...
loneliness party sky
They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.
half alive moments
It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.
wickedness thrive wells
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
amusement adultery crime
Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.
change past years
Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.
ideas trying pennies
I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.
hands experience firsts
I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
writing people paint
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
matter nothing-matters
Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.
two way cheat
there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.