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No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

Kate Atkinson

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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
Journalist
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Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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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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I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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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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Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
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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 spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.
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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
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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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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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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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She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
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The past is what you take with you.
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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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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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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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