It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks Atkinson
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
Kate Atkinson
I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing... →
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost... →
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't... →
My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to... →
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army... →
Rick Atkinson
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
Rowan Atkinson
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way... →