Quotes by Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they don’t conform to the reality that’s around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Children

Reading

Reality

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

Awkward

Feminism

Feminist

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

Born

Politician

Hindsight’s a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

Wonderful

Would Be

Writing

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

Mad

Thinking

I can’t help but think that it’s an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn’t bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it’s true they are much harder to find.

Character

Children

Thinking

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn’t, so I think it is possibly the end.

Mother

Thinking

Would Be

I don’t have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I’m big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

Book

Ideas

Writing

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Four

Literature

Years

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Alive

Awkward

Baby

Beautiful

Becoming

Belief

Book

Born

Cat

Catholic

Cells

Character

Children

Class

Clothes

Conundrums

Creepy

Cutting

Damnation

Embrace

Emotion

Ends

Endurance

Father

Feminism

Feminist

Four

Girl

Grace

Happenings

Happens

Harder

Ideas

Impossible

Insane

Keys

Life

Light

Literature

Loneliness

Long

Long Time

Looks

Lying

Mad

Memories

Men

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Quotes by Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they don’t conform to the reality that’s around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

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.

Hindsight’s a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn’t, so I think it is possibly the end.

I don’t have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I’m big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

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