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 your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I end up discussing the weather when the weather is all around us and both I and whoever the stranger might be must surely… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I can't help it either, the laughing: solemn gatherings, slow ballads, pompous orations, any person or occasion that assumes I'll offer my unreserved respect:… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps i am a masochist. No. Not Possible. If I were basically a masochist then most of my life would have been just nothing… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The right wrist, because I'm right-handed - so that must be the one that's done most wrong. Although, now that I think, my sins… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Writers' trousers are famously unpredictable in many ways, but I haven't met another author whose trousers simply disintegrated en route to a reading. There… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“If ever the difficulties of your life seem overwhelming, consider the prospect of being eaten alive by savage penguins and rejoice that such horrors… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin. — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There are times when you've personally known things to misfire--the sentence that fell badly, the dull gift, slapdash comment, hobbled punch line, tight-fisted tip--trying… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved. — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“He's doing something in Surbiton next. Or Serbia, one or the other.” — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
