I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything… — 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
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… — 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
I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it… — 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
A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine -… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
