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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: 73
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 can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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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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The past is what you take with you.
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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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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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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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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
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She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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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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Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
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When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.
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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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Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.
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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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She doesn't believe in dogs, Bridget said. Dogs are hardly an article of faith, Sylvie said.
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