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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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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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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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Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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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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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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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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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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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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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 was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.
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Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?
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Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
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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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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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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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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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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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