Kate Atkinson It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I’d lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That’s when I started to write. – Kate Atkinson Baby Quotes Failing Quotes Frustrated Quotes Led Quotes Life Quotes Lost Quotes Novelwriting Quotes Path Quotes Phd Quotes Remarried Quotes Started Quotes Struck Quotes Write Quotes 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. I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it’s not what it’s cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Robert OrbenValentines Day I got a Valentine’s Day card from my girl. It said, ‘Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!’ Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself. – Robert Orben
Emma Mackey People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling. – Emma Mackey
John Stockton I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can’t match them, I’d like to be that kind of parent. – John Stockton
Clive Sinclair At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past. – Clive Sinclair
MomTamara Taylor I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell. – Tamara Taylor
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