I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“[T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny… — Kate Atkinson Icing on the cake Copy Share Image
“That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery,… — Kate Atkinson History Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes just one good man, Ursula said to him during the war. Neither of them could think of an example… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and… — Kate Atkinson Coffee 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
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.' 'You're very good at… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said Valerie . On the way up, Jackson noticed that… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school.… — Kate Atkinson Childhood Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for… — Kate Atkinson Approach 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 Beginning Copy Share Image
I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the… — Kate Atkinson Education Copy Share Image
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