--- title: "2 Circulation Quotes By A. S. Byatt" description: "2 Circulation quotes by A. S. Byatt. Plus more from A. S. Byatt and more Circulation sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/a-s-byatt-2-7553_blood_narration-is-as-much-a-part-of-human-nat_92365.jpg" --- > [Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/narration-is-as-much-a-part-of-human-nature-as-breath-and-the/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/a-s-byatt-2-7553_blood_narration-is-as-much-a-part-of-human-nat_92365.jpg) > [Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/narration-is-as-much-a-part-of-human-nature-as-breath-and-the-2/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a84/a-s-byatt-2-7553_blood_narration-is-as-much-a-part-of-human-nat_1932457.jpg) ## Other authors on Circulation ## More by A. S. Byatt > [There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/there-is-a-certain-aesthetic-pleasure-in-trying-to-imagine-the/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-am-not-an-academic-who-happens-to-have-written-a-novel-i-am-a/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/he-had-been-violently-confused-by-her-real-presence-in-the-opposite/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/narration-is-as-much-a-part-of-human-nature-as-breath-and-the/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [“Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/pedro-of-portugal-s-rapt-and-bizarre-declaration-of-love-in-1356-for/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-don-t-think-it-is-an-easy-thing-to-write-and-expect-to-be/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-am-not-sure-how-much-good-is-done-by-moralising-about-fairy-tales/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-d-like-to-write-the-way-matisse-paints/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/louis-de-bernires-is-in-the-direct-line-that-runs-through-dickens-and/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-m-more-interested-in-books-than-people-and-i-always-expect/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-watch-a-lot-of-sport-on-television-i-only-watch-certain-sports-and/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [“When the morning light came into the room it found them curled together in a nest of red and white sheets. It revealed also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/when-the-morning-light-came-into-the-room-it-found-them-curled/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-think-there-are-a-lot-more-important-things-than-art-in-the-world/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/for-a-long-time-i-felt-instinctively-irritated-sometimes-repelled-by/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) > [I was no good at being a child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt-2/i-was-no-good-at-being-a-child/) [A. S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt-2/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circulation/a-s-byatt-2/#itemlist", "name": "2 Circulation Quotes By A. S. 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