"What I need to write well is a……" — A. S. Byatt
"What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude."
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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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And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and…
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage…
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves,…
— Richard Branson
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Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there…
— Mel Brooks
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying…
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the…
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My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including…
— Herman Cain
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Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a…
— Billy Campbell
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Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful,…
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