"...it is not possible to create the opposite……" — A. S. Byatt
"...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors."
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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 hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what…
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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when…
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I…
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When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure"…
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