"One of the reasons I've gotten so attached……" — A. S. Byatt

"One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality."

— 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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search… — Paul Auster
When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words. — Antonio Banderas
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these… — Martha Beck
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof… — Claude Bernard
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. — Ambrose Bierce
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to… — Sara Blakely
Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached. — David Brenner
Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing. — Gary Busey
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which… — John le Carre
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of… — Helena Bonham Carter
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is… — Chanakya

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