It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this… — Kate Atkinson Afterlife Copy Share Image
“Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from… — Kate Atkinson Ethics Copy Share Image
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.” — Kate Atkinson Future Copy Share Image
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't… — Kate Atkinson Heart 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
“misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for… — Kate Atkinson Evil Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Baby Copy Share Image
“From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere?… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How… — Kate Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“Afterwards—because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy—he resolved that he would try always to be kind.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'd mind working on a cheese counter. It would leave my mind free to do whatever it wanted -… — Kate Atkinson Aloneness 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… — Kate Atkinson Conception Copy Share Image
“And the English soul, if it resided anywhere, was surely in some unheroic back garden—a patch of lawn, a bed of roses,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and… — Kate Atkinson Acquires Copy Share Image
“You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.” — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, sleep the meek members of the Resurrection, rafter of satin and roof of stone.’ Emily… — Kate Atkinson Morning Copy Share Image
“After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world,… — Kate Atkinson Obsolete Copy Share Image
“I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?” — Kate Atkinson Human race 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
“Love at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would… — Kate Atkinson Children Copy Share Image
“Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.” — Kate Atkinson Madness 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 Cassandra Copy Share Image
“Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire… — Kate Atkinson Family Copy Share Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Better way Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of going on the stage once," he said, looking crestfallen. "It's never too late," I said vaguely. A lie, of… — Kate Atkinson Dreams 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 Copy Share Image
No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and… — Kate Atkinson Life 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 Funny thought Copy Share Image
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“There were doorways between this world and the next, she said, but only certain people could pass through them.” — Kate Atkinson Doorways Copy Share Image
“This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Because life is an adventure, of course.” “I would say it was more of an endurance race,” Sylvie said. “Or an obstacle… — Kate Atkinson Adventure Copy Share Image
“They have no sense of humour whatsoever – even Bunty has a sense of humour compared with our hosts. They have united… — Kate Atkinson Comedy Copy Share Image
“Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?” — Kate Atkinson War Copy Share Image
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