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Katharine Weber quotes

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: b. November 12, 1955

Birthday: November 12

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Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

source: - Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

Topics: Loss, Sometimes, Ends

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But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

source: - Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

Topics: Mean, Eye, People, Manuscripts

I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.

source: - Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.19, Crown

Topics: Powerful, Sea, Sky, Perpetual

Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

Topics: Book, Land, Mind, Big Book

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

Topics: Children, Age, Narrative, First Person Narrative

I do love competence in a man.

source: - Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown

Topics: Men, Competence

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

Topics: Mind, Literature, Great Minds, Examining

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