Logo
Quote by Kate Atkinson
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. – Kate Atkinson

Other quotes by Kate Atkinson

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. Theres nothing that says I cant write a page of full stops. There is no should involved, although you wouldnt know that from literary reviews and critics. – Kate Atkinson

Category:
Freedom
Author
Kate Atkinson
Read Quote

My father was an autodidact. It wasnt a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasnt allowed to go. – Kate Atkinson

Category:
Education
Author
Kate Atkinson
Read Quote

When Im writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I cant 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

Category:
Food
Author
Kate Atkinson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Death
category

I know Im drinking myself to a slow death, but then Im in no hurry. – Robert Benchley

Category:
Death

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it. – Abu Bakr

Category:
Death

Does not the very word creative mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death. – Berenice Abbott

Category:
Death

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon, Essays

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

Category:
Evil

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign. – Jack Abramoff

Category:
positive

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age dont even know about, which is really sad. – Amber Tamblyn

Category:
sad

Its only when youre alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. – Paul Theroux

Category:
alone