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?
Become such as you are, having learned what that is. - Kate Atkinson
Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
- Kate Atkinson
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much. - Kate Atkinson
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. - Kate Atkinson
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Non… - Kate Atkinson
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Non…
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. - Kate Atkinson
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and … - Kate Atkinson
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and …
Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being. - Kate Atkinson
Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. - Kate Atkinson
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
The past is what you take with you. - Kate Atkinson
The past is what you take with you.
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