A.L. Kennedy Quotes

• Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Writing, Humility

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Writing, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Writing, Self, Black

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Needs, Remember, Good Things

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Love You, Writing, Remember You

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• We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Thinking, Skins, Bags

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• Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Stupid, Feels, Findings

  A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains”, p.20, Random House

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• Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

  A.L. Kennedy

  Environment, Stabbing, Surgery

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• A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Weather, Mind, Friendly

  A. L. Kennedy (2007). “Day”, Random House

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• You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Night, Bed, Looks

  A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

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