Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson, MBEis an award-winning English writer. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 and, under its new name the Costa Book Awards, in 2013 and 2015 in the Novels category...
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eye ears way
Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my evolution and develop earlids?
rain profound grace
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.
real stories world
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.
book men creepy
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
unique voice unique-voices
If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
writing firsts said
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?
mystery cases fronts
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
years literature four
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
writing terrible-times finished
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.
insane would-be looks
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
book thinking giving
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
rivers water steps
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.
embrace whatever-happens just-one
Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.
father school class
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.