"The great thing about writing compared to life……" — Kate Atkinson

"The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up."

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49 Quotes by Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely…
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and…
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics…
Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some…
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a…
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.…

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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but… — Tom Baker
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. — Simone de Beauvoir
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It… — Tony Bennett
Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who… — Bjork
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? — Bertolt Brecht
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? — Bertolt Brecht
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
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