"I hated being a novelist when I was……" — A. S. Byatt
"I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about."
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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt
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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 think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from…
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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 have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.
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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
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I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.
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The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life…
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I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
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I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
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