It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy. - Kate Atkinson

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You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.

Kate Atkinson

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

Absent, Book, Creepy, Men, Said

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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.

Embrace, Embraced, Equally, Good, Happens, Whatever Happens

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.

1993, Awards, Ian, Mind, Museums, Writing

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

Bigs, Fascinates, History, Novelists, What If

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.

Catholic, Catholicism, Died, Glitter, Thinking, Would Be

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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William Penn

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

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Jef Raskin

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Computer, Strictly, Time, Waste, Work

Garrett Atkins

You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

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Michael Moss

I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides?

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