"Lists are a form of power." — A. S. Byatt
"Lists are a form of power."
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A. S. Byatt
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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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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode…
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in…
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
— Julian Assange
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
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