The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Long lazy days like these will never come again in your life. You think they will but they won't.' -Sylvie” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Because life is an adventure, of course.” “I would say it was more of an endurance race,” Sylvie said. “Or an obstacle… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I don't actually live here," Reggie said. "Who does live here then?" "Ms. MacDonald, except that she doesn't because she's dead. Everyone's… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.'… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“It wasn't fair, he thought peevishly. "Who said life was fair?" his father had said to him a hundred times. He had… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“she could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
“misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share
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