My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to … - Kate Atkinson

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Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family. . . not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

Kate Atkinson

My father was an autodidact. It wasn't 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 wasn't allowed to go.

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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.

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