34 Quotes by Catherine Lowell

Regret is made obsolete by the story you tell.

There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that’s where writing your own novel can be so useful.

My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them – even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage.

Isn’t there some truth in all fiction?” “There’s some fiction in all truth too.

Once a book has left the brain of the author, it took on a life of its own, and served as the only liaison between the reader and the author. If you read carefully, the book could tell you all sorts of secrets-sometimes about its characters, and sometimes about its creator.

A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very ‘ooh-la-la’ man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else.

My stories were not very good. They didn’t have much of a story line, and, in the way of all serious fiction, they ended with the untimely deaths of everyone.