Reality Quote by A. S. Byatt

“One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.”

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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 am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

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“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of…

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Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…

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“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…

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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 am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will…

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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

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Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world,…

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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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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…

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“When the morning light came into the room it found them curled together in a nest of red and white sheets. It revealed also…

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Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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“The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.”

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“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.”

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