"I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me,……" — A. S. Byatt
"I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is."
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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 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 hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
— Benjamin Banneker
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Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
— Syd Barrett
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
— Annie Besant
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which…
— Andrea Bocelli
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and…
— Bono
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my…
— David Bowie
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the…
— Jeff Bridges
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours…
— Steve Buscemi
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