All Kate Atkinson Quotes
- Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and… From
- Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory.… Afraid
- I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. Dreadful
- What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful? Chance
- Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. Change
- Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated… Behind
- She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said. Article
- Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve. Begin
- Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education… Acquired
- He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become. Baby
- Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love. Gratitude
- It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday. Ago
- Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more… Adventure
- No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best.… All
- Become such as you are, having learned what that is. Funny
- You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. Believe
- Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. Events
- Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as… Acquires
- Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. Book
- The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. Compared
- I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. American
- The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. Been
- I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country… Country
- I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been… Ambience