5 Quotes & Sayings By Kathleen Winsor

Kathleen Winsor was born in Amsterdam, Holland, and educated at the Royal Academy of Music. She became a professional opera singer and sang with leading European opera companies for over thirty years. In the 1960s she discovered that her voice had steadily deteriorated from a career-ending injury to her vocal cords. In 1968 she began to write in an effort to overcome her own sense of isolation and loneliness Read more

Her first book, Auntie Mame, was published in 1970. When it became a bestseller she began writing full time. She sold the film rights to an adaptation of her next novel, The Women in White (1980), but the movie never materialized; later the novel was made into a film in 2000 by Disney Studios under the direction of Robert Altman.

Her other novels include Devil's Island (1975), The Young Don't Cry (1978), The Secret (1982), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1984), The White Witch (1986), A House for Mr. Biswas (1987), The Golden Bowl (1989) and Sarah's Story (1995).

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Her honey-coloured hair fell in heavy wavesbelow her shoulders and as she stared up at him her eyes, clear, speckled amber, seemed to tilt at the corners; her brows were black and swept up in arcs, and she had thick black lashesh. There was about her a kind of warm luxuriance, something immediately suggestive to the men of pleasurable fulfillment- something for which she was not responsible but of which she was acutely conscious. Kathleen Winsor
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The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. Kathleen Winsor
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I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes. Kathleen Winsor
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Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. Kathleen Winsor