Kate Atkinson Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Firsts, Said

• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Different, Would Be

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

• 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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Writing, Ideas

• 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.'

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, People, Different

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

• 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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Awards, Museums

• Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Would Be, Wonderful

• When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Names, Clothes

• Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Terrible Times, Finished

• The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Ties, Life Is

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