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The past is what you take with you.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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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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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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Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
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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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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.
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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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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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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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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.
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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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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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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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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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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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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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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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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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