Poison Quote by A. S. Byatt Download Open image “It's a terrible poison, writing.” — A. S. Byatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poison Terrible Writing
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don’t have that poison, your story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And it seems there is such a grand murder in the paper–you must find it and read it to me, girls; a whole family… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books. — Charlotte Dacre Copy Share Image
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“When the morning light came into the room it found them curled together in a nest of red and white sheets. It revealed also… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I take really good care of myself. I promised myself long ago that I would never miss a hunting season, never poison my sacred… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
