Kate Morton Quote Explained: The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

+

I love the structural part of the writing process.

Author

+

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

- Kate Morton

Author

Shapes

+

… people who’d led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

- Kate Morton

Author

Second Chance

+

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

- Kate Morton

Author

Unhappy

+

Doors lead to things and I’ve never met one I haven’t wanted to open.

- Kate Morton

Author

Doors
Mets

+

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it, the way we throw people away?

- Kate Morton

Author

Terrible

+

You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.

- Kate Morton

Author

Missing

+

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

- Kate Morton

Author

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

… people who’d led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Doors lead to things and I’ve never met one I haven’t wanted to open.

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it, the way we throw people away?

You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

Edit Post

Log in with your credentials

Forgot your details?