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42 quotes by Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson Atkinson signing books at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (August 2007) Born 1951 (age 63–64) York, England, United Kingdom Occupation Writer Language English Alma mater University of Dundee Genre Crime fiction Children Eve Worden Website www.kateatkinson.co.uk Kate Atkinson, MBE (born 1951) is an English writer.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

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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... →

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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... →

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Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing... →

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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even... →

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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad... →

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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... →

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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment''s not mine - it's... →

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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't... →

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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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