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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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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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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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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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Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
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The past is what you take with you.
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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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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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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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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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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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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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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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I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
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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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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 can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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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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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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