Logo
Quote by Kate Atkinson
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liber

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

Other quotes by Kate Atkinson

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

Category:
Death
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

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
Other Quotes from
Freedom
category

You cannot mistake Bushs clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they arent just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves. – Eric Liu

Category:
Freedom

I dont have anything to prove anymore. I dont have a record deal, no one has any expectations, Im in a position of freedom. I dont need anyones approval. – Juliana Hatfield

Category:
Freedom

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. – Rabindranath Tagore

Category:
Freedom

But, I dont think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer cant create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything thats written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom. – Buddy Rich

Category:
Freedom

Random Quotes

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But Id rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. – Bjork

Category:
Death

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Love

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

Category:
Poetry

We can never, ever say it enough: every woman – especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health… and do whats right for her! – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Category:
Health