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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
Journalist
Novelist
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I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'
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