“As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someo...” — Kate Forsyth Quote

“As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.”

“You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.”

“I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.”

“I've always eaten out a lot as I live life on the road, so I never conceived of eating anything healthy.”

“The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.”

“But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.”