Kate

“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language on the face of the earth than the American form of English, I should like to know what it is." (We should perhaps bear in mind that the House of Lords is a largely powerless, nonelective institution. It is an arresting fact of British political life that a Briton can enjoy a national platform and exalted status because he is the residue of an illicit coupling 300 years before between a monarch and an orange seller.)”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

“What if the novel in you is one you yourself would never read? A beach novel, a blockbuster, a long, windy, character-driven literary drama that ends sadly? What if the one novel in you is the opposite of your idea of yourself?”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen”
― Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?