"The more research you do, the more at……" — A. S. Byatt
"The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free."
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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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More Ease Quotes
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
— Jane Austen
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
— Jane Austen
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is…
— Georges Bataille
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
— Ingrid Bergman
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I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't…
— David Bowie
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of…
— Donald Cargill
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
— Winston Churchill
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As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where…
— George Clooney
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
— Chuck Close
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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