"You can understand a lot about yourself by……" — A. S. Byatt
"You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in."
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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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More Fairytale Quotes
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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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Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendor that God has created, but we shall get…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Story book endings, fairytales coming true.
— Carrie Underwood
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Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself…
— Marc Jacobs
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I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of…
— Darren Criss
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I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all…
— Chris Colfer
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When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale…
— Neil Gaiman
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives…
— Cornelia Funke
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It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with…
— Lierre Keith
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