"I don't think it is an easy thing……" — A. S. Byatt
"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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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt has 101 quotes on this site.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a…
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be…
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly…
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask…
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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More Commercial Quotes
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In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.
— Giorgio Armani
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going…
— J. G. Ballard
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies…
— James Buchan
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My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in…
— Steve Albini
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
— Edmund Burke
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In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films…
— Steve Buscemi
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other…
— Adam Carolla
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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to…
— John Bates Clark
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I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the…
— Kurt Cobain
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I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record…
— Tori Amos
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