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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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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 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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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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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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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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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
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You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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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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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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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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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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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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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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Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
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I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
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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'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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