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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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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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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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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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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
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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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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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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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