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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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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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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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You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
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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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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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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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Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
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Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
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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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You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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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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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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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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Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid that if it ever began to heal she would disappear.
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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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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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