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

Kate Atkinson

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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
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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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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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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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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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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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I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
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Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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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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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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