Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. - Kate Atkinson - Quotesmemo.com

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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

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Kate Atkinson

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

Book, Give, Giving, Published, Think, Thinking

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Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

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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.

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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

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I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

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Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

Knowledge, Like, Novel, Novels, Reading, Reading Novels

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Great is not great to the greater.

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I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

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Rob Thurman

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

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