My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was… — Kate Atkinson Anyone Copy Share Image
“she appeared in the doorway of his study and placidly announced she was leaving him. "It's you, not me," she said.” — Kate Atkinson Divorce-humor 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 Beginning Copy Share Image
“Olivia was her only beautiful child. Julia, with her dark curls and snub nose, was pretty but her character wasn't, Sylvia ---… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.” — Kate Atkinson Life Copy Share Image
“Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.” — kate atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want… — Kate Atkinson Ambience Copy Share Image
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book… — Kate Atkinson About 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 Blood 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 Life Copy Share Image
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.' — Kate Atkinson Emotionally Copy Share Image
“Personally, I don’t think it right to make up things about real people—although I suppose there’s an argument for saying that once… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be… — Kate Atkinson Chance Copy Share Image
“Ursula found it very odd to think that up above them there were German bombers being flown by men who, essentially, were… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Abandon Copy Share Image
She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty. — Kate Atkinson Doubt Copy Share Image
“It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on… — Kate Atkinson Good team Copy Share Image
“There were doorways between this world and the next, she said, but only certain people could pass through them.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.” — Kate Atkinson Death Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice,’ ” he remembered Sylvie saying, “is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.” “These” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive… — Kate Atkinson Boys Copy Share Image
“I'm always so glad," Sylvie murmured, "that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.” — Kate Atkinson Personalities Copy Share Image
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. — Kate Atkinson Belief Copy Share Image
He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has… — Kate Atkinson Baby Copy Share Image
