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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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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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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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Julia's vocabulary was chock-full of strangely archaic words - spiffing, crumbs, jeepers - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.
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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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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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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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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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