Kate Atkinson quote: "I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there."

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON

But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the ...
KATE ATKINSON

I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I sli...
KATE ATKINSON

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing ...
KATE ATKINSON

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be v...
KATE ATKINSON

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON

It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Gr...
KATE ATKINSON

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had w...
KATE ATKINSON

He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this ...
KATE ATKINSON

Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for...
KATE ATKINSON

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be li...
KATE ATKINSON

I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. M...
KATE ATKINSON

Teddy thought of his wife and his sister as two sides of the same shining coin. Nancy was an idealis...
KATE ATKINSON

Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy waste...
KATE ATKINSON

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any write...
KATE ATKINSON

Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn...
KATE ATKINSON

Oh, how he missed his sister. Out of everyone, the legions of the dead, the numberless infinities of...
KATE ATKINSON

She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON

After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in...
KATE ATKINSON

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.
KATE ATKINSON

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbe...
KATE ATKINSON

...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's...
KATE ATKINSON

Scars heal,” Sylvie said. “Even the worst ones.
KATE ATKINSON

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their...
ROWAN ATKINSON

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and se...
EDWARD ATKINSON

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON

Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. On the subject o...
ROWAN ATKINSON

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
JOHN ATKINSON

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit...
BROOKS ATKINSON

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and ...
BROOKS ATKINSON

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open inf...
GIL ATKINSON

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons...
BROOKS ATKINSON

No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
GORDON ATKINSON

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift y...
GORDON ATKINSON

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no ...
GORDON ATKINSON

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and ...
GORDON ATKINSON

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exis...
GORDON ATKINSON

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising way...
GORDON ATKINSON

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my fait...
GORDON ATKINSON

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, ...
GORDON ATKINSON

Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in...
GORDON ATKINSON

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
GORDON ATKINSON

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentl...
GORDON ATKINSON

Im searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
GORDON ATKINSON

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for...
GORDON ATKINSON

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person ...
GORDON ATKINSON

When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There migh...
GORDON ATKINSON

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
GORDON ATKINSON

In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of...
RICK ATKINSON

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorpho...
ROWAN ATKINSON

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were th...
RICK ATKINSON

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Cri...
ROWAN ATKINSON

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You...
ROWAN ATKINSON

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ...
ROWAN ATKINSON

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very sm...
RICK ATKINSON

Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I...
ANTHONY ATKINSON

It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was best...
ANTHONY ATKINSON

Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against.
ANTHONY ATKINSON

Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable...
ANTHONY ATKINSON

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life,...
RICK ATKINSON

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should firs...
RICK ATKINSON

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSON

I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles sout...
RICK ATKINSON

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly ...
ROWAN ATKINSON

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like...
ROWAN ATKINSON

I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch th...
ROWAN ATKINSON

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembere...
ROWAN ATKINSON

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonv...
ROWAN ATKINSON

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in...
ROWAN ATKINSON

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest...
RICK ATKINSON

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month o...
RICK ATKINSON

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f...
RICK ATKINSON

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot ...
ROWAN ATKINSON

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSON

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends u...
ROWAN ATKINSON

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apa...
BROOKS ATKINSON

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point ...
BROOKS ATKINSON

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
BROOKS ATKINSON

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God...
BROOKS ATKINSON

The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or...
BROOKS ATKINSON

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of t...
BROOKS ATKINSON

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.'...
BILL ATKINSON

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their...
ROWAN ATKINSON

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time...
BROOKS ATKINSON

It will be very hard for anyone to pigeonhole Allen as belonging to any one faction of the Republica...
FRANK ATKINSON

George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as gover...
FRANK ATKINSON

To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and tea...
FRANK ATKINSON

This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.
FRANK ATKINSON

When I charged a round in the chamber, he got down real fast,
FRANK ATKINSON

It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English.
FRANK ATKINSON

We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many...
JANICE ATKINSON

If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel election...
JANICE ATKINSON

Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough ma...
JANICE ATKINSON

To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with ...
JANICE ATKINSON

Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the f...
JACOB ATKINSON

Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical id...
JACOB ATKINSON

Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain
JACOB ATKINSON

Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything...
JACOB ATKINSON

Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I...
JACOB ATKINSON

He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the univ...
JACOB ATKINSON

Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart....
JACOB ATKINSON

Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.
JACOB ATKINSON

Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they...
JACOB ATKINSON

It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets ...
JACOB ATKINSON

I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-c...
ALIA ATKINSON

This was our first time.
JOHN ATKINSON

I checked with our infectious disease specialist and we've not had any cases here yet. So far so goo...
JOHN ATKINSON

They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting...
JOHN ATKINSON

Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ki...
JOHN ATKINSON

We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life...
JOHN ATKINSON

We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home r...
JOHN ATKINSON

I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from C...
JOHN ATKINSON

[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy,...
JOHN ATKINSON

When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against.
JOHN ATKINSON

It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to o...
JENNIFER ATKINSON

This school will embrace him. We're a family here and he is going to feel like he has belonged here ...
JENNIFER ATKINSON

It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children.
JENNIFER ATKINSON

She was very passionate about the Children's Clinic. She served on the Special Projects Committee th...
JENNIFER ATKINSON

I haven't seen anything like this before. It's an odd way to run for the Republican nomination, base...
KATY ATKINSON

Money is important; it always will be.
KATY ATKINSON

The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country.
KATY ATKINSON

Both parties have been gearing up for this. It will be a very competitive year.
KATY ATKINSON

It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks.
KATY ATKINSON

I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position ...
KATY ATKINSON

They're essentially running a campaign without reporting who their contributors are.
KATY ATKINSON

This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their ow...
KATY ATKINSON

There's some fatigue among the average Republican. They're tired of it all. They're tired of scandal...
KATY ATKINSON

If what Holtzman decides to do is run against Republicans, it could hurt other Republicans. If you s...
KATY ATKINSON

We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move forward...
DAVID ATKINSON

The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't nec...
DAVID ATKINSON

We realized that as a system we could handle those cases ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ in a family-...
DAVID ATKINSON

Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted ...
DAVID ATKINSON

We'll be affected, but it won't be insurmountable.
DAVID ATKINSON

We're looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent op...
DAVID ATKINSON

The hangars were not destroyed from bomb damage but it brought back a lot of little memories of that...
DAVID ATKINSON

They've got more scale and can do something with it,
DAVID ATKINSON

I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebra...
DAVID ATKINSON

Considering [this market] is in an era of strong secular trends in basic materials, our firm foresee...
DAVID ATKINSON

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Like we said yesterday, we'll be happy with top five.
CHRIS ATKINSON

It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.
CHRIS ATKINSON

I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play...
CHRIS ATKINSON

It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much...
CHRIS ATKINSON

We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of t...
CHRIS ATKINSON

It's nice have to have a name for the park. We've just been calling it the old bridge approach. It w...
CHRIS ATKINSON

The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overal...
CHRIS ATKINSON

Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.
MARK ATKINSON

With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficul...
MARK ATKINSON

It's quite hearty in the environment.
MARK ATKINSON

We're still working on a number that would give us a high degree of confidence in our sample, but a ...
MARK ATKINSON

It's more likely to be brought in by the illegal movement of birds and bird products.
MARK ATKINSON

Teaching and learning go hand and hand and to achieve student learning I believe that it is essentia...
MICHAEL ATKINSON

You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like ...
MICHAEL ATKINSON

One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus wh...
MICHAEL ATKINSON

Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and...
MICHAEL ATKINSON

Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men ar...
MICHAEL ATKINSON

They used to throw this stuff away.
LEO ATKINSON

I was a little country hick boy.
LEO ATKINSON

Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits tog...
LEO ATKINSON

It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.
LEO ATKINSON

I am blessed to have first been a salesperson.
LEO ATKINSON

It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.
LEO ATKINSON

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you...
GORDON ATKINSON

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.
GORDON ATKINSON

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes t...
GORDON ATKINSON

Im telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe Im discovering that things were never i...
GORDON ATKINSON

It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is rig...
GORDON ATKINSON

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
GORDON ATKINSON

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'...
GORDON ATKINSON

The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, ...
GORDON ATKINSON

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your fa...
GORDON ATKINSON

See things as they are and write about them. Dont waste your creative energy trying to make things...
GORDON ATKINSON

If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru...
GORDON ATKINSON

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin...
GORDON ATKINSON

One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ...
GORDON ATKINSON

Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.
GORDON ATKINSON

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
GORDON ATKINSON

External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or ev...
GORDON ATKINSON

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
BROOKS ATKINSON

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev...
BROOKS ATKINSON

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womans name and claim to love her.
GORDON ATKINSON

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
GORDON ATKINSON

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p...
GORDON ATKINSON

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
GORDON ATKINSON

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
GORDON ATKINSON

I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ...
GORDON ATKINSON

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ...
GORDON ATKINSON

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or ...
GORDON ATKINSON

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ...
GORDON ATKINSON

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
GORDON ATKINSON

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ...
GORDON ATKINSON

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
GORDON ATKINSON

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ...
GORDON ATKINSON

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio...
ROWAN ATKINSON

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea...
ROWAN ATKINSON

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

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