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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waiting realizing feels
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
past
The past is what you take with you.
mother sleep mind
If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.
silence stories ends
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
bad brain ending fairy fiction good hard legacy work
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 ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
art difference life quite recognise work
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 recognise the difference between the two.
past sometimes harder
Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.
thinking trying should
No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.