--- title: "1 True Place Quotes By A.S. Byatt" description: "1 True Place quotes by A.S. Byatt. Plus more from A.S. Byatt and more True Place sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/a-s-byatt-5275_place_all-these-are-true-and-none-the-place-is_195738.png" --- > [“All these are true and none. The place is there Is what we name it, and is not. It is .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/all-these-are-true-and-none-the-place-is-there-is-what-we-name-it-and/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/a-s-byatt-5275_place_all-these-are-true-and-none-the-place-is_195738.png) ## More by A.S. Byatt > [“...bleached by darkness”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/bleached-by-darkness/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/above-his-head-at-street-level-he-saw-an-angled-aileron-of-a-scarlet/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle. "I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/why-do-you-go-cold-he-kept-his-voice-gentle-i-i-ve-analysed-it/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/she-was-a-thinking-child-and-worked-this-out-it-hurt-her-unlike-most/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/those-words-national-and-portrait-they-were-both-to-do-with-identity/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“All these are true and none. The place is there Is what we name it, and is not. It is .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/all-these-are-true-and-none-the-place-is-there-is-what-we-name-it-and/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/he-had-been-taught-that-language-was-essentially-inadequate-that-it/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“ We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/we-must-come-to-grief-and-regret-anyway-and-i-for-one-would-rather/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/roland-had-learned-to-see-himself-theoretically-as-a-crossing-place/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/she-thought-human-thoughts-and-stone-thoughts-the-latter-were-slow/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“…it will be possible, in the time of the wolf, to kill the gods.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/it-will-be-possible-in-the-time-of-the-wolf-to-kill-the-gods/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“She looked, quickly, quickly, it was better than before, thanked him and averted her eyes. She came to trust him with her disintegration.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/she-looked-quickly-quickly-it-was-better-than-before-thanked-him-and/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/this-is-where-i-have-always-been-coming-to-since-my-time-began-and/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“...I have always believed I cd diagnose this state of being in love, which they regard as most particular, as inspired by item, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/i-have-always-believed-i-cd-diagnose-this-state-of-being-in-love/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) > [“The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the end of the nineteenth century, were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/the-children-mingled-with-the-adults-and-spoke-and-were-spoken-to/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-place/a-s-byatt/#itemlist", "name": "1 True Place Quotes By A.S. 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