Kate Atkinson Quotes - Page 3

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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Reading, Reality

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• They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

  Kate Atkinson

  Strong, Heart, Pieces

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.153, Random House

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• If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

  Kate Atkinson

  Unique, Unique Voices, Voice

  "Putting the fun back into fiction" by Kate Atkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2003.

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• My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

  Kate Atkinson

  Father, School, Class

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• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Men, Creepy

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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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Insane, Would Be, Looks

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

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Ties, Life Is

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• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  Kate Atkinson

  What If, Novelists, Bigs

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• Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

  Kate Atkinson

  Gratitude, Mistake, Sometimes

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.258, Random House

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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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Pain, Memories, Alive

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.129, Random House

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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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Thinking, Trying, Should

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• (although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

  Kate Atkinson

  Brain, Half, Existential

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• Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

  Kate Atkinson

  Secret, Grew Up, Amelia

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• The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Keys, Light

  Kate Atkinson (1995). “Behind the scenes at the museum”

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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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Real, Stories, World

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.97, Macmillan

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• She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

  Kate Atkinson

  Dog, Believe, Said

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.102, Random House

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• 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.

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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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Thinking, Creating

  "Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Awards, Museums

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• 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

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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.

  Kate Atkinson

  Mother, Thinking, Would Be

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