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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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The past is what you take with you.
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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
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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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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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You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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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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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
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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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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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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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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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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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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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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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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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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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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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