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Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
Journalist
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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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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The past is what you take with you.
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.
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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
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I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
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He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.
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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
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Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
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