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“I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.”

A. S. Byatt

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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

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