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Top 20 A.L. Kennedy Quotes (2024 Update)

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.”

1. “Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.”

2. “A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment.”

3. “Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “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.”

4. “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

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “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. Remember writing doesn’t love you. It doesn’t care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.”

5. “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. Remember writing doesn’t love you. It doesn’t care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.”

6. “We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm.”

7. “Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.”

8. “Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “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.”

9. “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

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me.”

10. “I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “I am delicate and the world is impossibly wrong, is unthinkable and I am not forewarned, forearmed, equipped. I cannot manage. If there was something useful I could do, I would – but there isn’t. So I drink.”

11. “I am delicate and the world is impossibly wrong, is unthinkable and I am not forewarned, forearmed, equipped. I cannot manage. If there was something useful I could do, I would – but there isn’t. So I drink.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Writers’ trousers are famously unpredictable in many ways, but I haven’t met another author whose trousers simply disintegrated en route to a reading. There I was, young and nervous and not wearing a frock due to poor body image issues, stuck on a late afternoon train, leafing through my notes in a preparatory way and yet also feeling, somehow, chilly.”

12. “Writers’ trousers are famously unpredictable in many ways, but I haven’t met another author whose trousers simply disintegrated en route to a reading. There I was, young and nervous and not wearing a frock due to poor body image issues, stuck on a late afternoon train, leafing through my notes in a preparatory way and yet also feeling, somehow, chilly.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Being me is a job – is labour so time-consuming and expensive that I have to have a second job just to support it. So that I can drink, I have to get drink and that isn’t something people give away and then there’s drink that I need because I have drunk and the other drink I have to keep around because, sooner or later, I will drink it. That’s a full-time occupation: that’s like being a miner, or a nurse.”

13. “Being me is a job – is labour so time-consuming and expensive that I have to have a second job just to support it. So that I can drink, I have to get drink and that isn’t something people give away and then there’s drink that I need because I have drunk and the other drink I have to keep around because, sooner or later, I will drink it. That’s a full-time occupation: that’s like being a miner, or a nurse.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Toreros must also be accustom themselves to a career which will inevitably involve injury by goring: sometimes serious, if not grotesque, goring. No matter what your personal opinion of the corrida may happen to be, these facts are inescapable: in the corrida, bulls and men meet fear and pain and both may die.”

14. “Toreros must also be accustom themselves to a career which will inevitably involve injury by goring: sometimes serious, if not grotesque, goring. No matter what your personal opinion of the corrida may happen to be, these facts are inescapable: in the corrida, bulls and men meet fear and pain and both may die.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “The right wrist, because I’m right-handed – so that must be the one that’s done most wrong. Although, now that I think, my sins have mostly been ambidextrous.”

15. “The right wrist, because I’m right-handed – so that must be the one that’s done most wrong. Although, now that I think, my sins have mostly been ambidextrous.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “As every languageless, stateless, selfless nation has one last, twisted image of its worst and best, we have the ceilidh. Here we pretend we are Highland, pretend we have mysteries in our work, pretend we have work. We forget our record of atrocities wherever we have been made masters and become comfortable servants again. Our present and our past creep in to change each other and we feel angry and sad and Scottish. Perhaps we feel free.”

16. “As every languageless, stateless, selfless nation has one last, twisted image of its worst and best, we have the ceilidh. Here we pretend we are Highland, pretend we have mysteries in our work, pretend we have work. We forget our record of atrocities wherever we have been made masters and become comfortable servants again. Our present and our past creep in to change each other and we feel angry and sad and Scottish. Perhaps we feel free.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough.”

17. “But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “It was lovely being out of his mind, very roomy. Now he could go anywhere he liked.”

18. “It was lovely being out of his mind, very roomy. Now he could go anywhere he liked.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “He could feel himself gladly abandoning sanity.”

19. “He could feel himself gladly abandoning sanity.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “An effective short story, or piece of flash fiction, delivers the impact of a novel in only a few thousand words, or only a few hundred. It is a singularity, a moment of remarkable meeting between reader and writer.”

20. “An effective short story, or piece of flash fiction, delivers the impact of a novel in only a few thousand words, or only a few hundred. It is a singularity, a moment of remarkable meeting between reader and writer.”

— A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy Quote: “Like all good youngsters on Gallifrey, the Doctor had been brought up with a strong awareness of how little other species new about... anything and how they usually shouldn’t been told about, well... anything, because most of the information a Time Lord might be able to offer them would at least make them retire to the country and keep bees – should their planet have bees, or similar life forms – if not actually drive them irreversibly insane.”

21. “Like all good youngsters on Gallifrey, the Doctor had been brought up with a strong awareness of how little other species new about... anything and how they usually shouldn’t been told about, well... anything, because most of the information a Time Lord might be able to offer them would at least make them retire to the country and keep bees – should their planet have bees, or similar life forms – if not actually drive them irreversibly insane.”

— A.L. Kennedy

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