I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.


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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
I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m 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. Don’t 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 woman’s name and claim to love her.
GORDON ATKINSON
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
GORDON ATKINSON
There isn’t 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 don’t 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 you’re 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