"There are many ways of writing badly about……" — A. S. Byatt
"There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing..."
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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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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
— Herman Melville
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
— Manuel Puig
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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles,…
— Stanley Kubrick
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A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
— Laurie Cabot
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Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories…
— Henry Timrod
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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
— Michel Tournier
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The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and…
— William Howard Taft
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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
— Walter Benjamin
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Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct -…
— Neill Blomkamp
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of…
— Milan Kundera
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A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the…
— Allen Ginsberg
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