You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
— A. L. Kennedy
Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment
— A. L. Kennedy
Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
— A. L. Kennedy
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
— A. L. Kennedy
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
— A. L. Kennedy
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
— A. L. Kennedy
Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
— A. L. Kennedy