Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“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… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“When the morning light came into the room it found them curled together in a nest of red and white sheets. It revealed also… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
