Kate Green quotes

“We make ourselves up as we go.”
-- Kate Green

#Change Quotes

“If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.”
-- Kate Green

#Writing Quotes #Want Quotes #Disturbed Quotes

“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”
-- Kate Green

Source : Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

#Country Quotes #Taken Quotes #People Quotes

“Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos ...”
-- Kate Green

Source : Kate Green (1993). “Shooting Star”, Harpercollins

#Taken Quotes #Logic Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.”
-- Kate Green

Source : Kate Green (1985). “Shattered Moon”, Dell Publishing Company

#Preparation Quotes #Ritual Quotes

“Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.”
-- Kate Green

#Landscape Quotes

“There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.”

“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jan 14, 2011

“You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.”

“s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.”

“The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.”

“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”

“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”

“Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.”

“I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.”

“There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.