I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.