Kate Atkinson Quotes About Writing

• Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Firsts, Said

• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Different, Would Be

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

• No tengo objetivos cuando escribo libros, aparte de llegar al final. Tengo ideas bastante vagas sobre cómo quiero que se sientan las cosas, me gusta mucho la ambientación. Tengo un título, un principio y un final probable y parto de ahí.

  Kate Atkinson

  Libro, Escritura, Ideas

• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, People, Different

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

• I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Awards, Museums

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

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Would Be, Wonderful

• When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Names, Clothes

• Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Terrible Times, Finished

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

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Ties, Life Is

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