I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would… — Kate Atkinson Country 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 Abandonment Copy Share Image
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls'… — Kate Atkinson Annuals Copy Share Image
“Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination. Nothing… — Kate Atkinson Time Copy Share Image
“That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) - one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom… — Kate Atkinson Time Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. “One must avoid dark thoughts at all… — Kate Atkinson Blink of an eye 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 Books Copy Share Image
“I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.” — Kate Atkinson Change Copy Share Image
