Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

- A.L. Kennedy

We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

- A.L. Kennedy

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Write…

- A.L. Kennedy

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be rea…

- A.L. Kennedy

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich…

- A.L. Kennedy

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you…

- A.L. Kennedy

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. …

- A.L. Kennedy

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.

- A.L. Kennedy

Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't lo…

- A.L. Kennedy