"Literary critics make natural detectives." — A. S. Byatt

"Literary critics make natural detectives."

— A. S. Byatt

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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a…
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be…
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly…
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask…
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from…
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

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Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's… — Kevin Bacon
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media… — Russell Baker
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my… — Charles Barkley
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and… — Joseph Addison
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point… — Henry Ward Beecher

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