All A. S. Byatt Quotes
- We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin… Air
- You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere. All
- For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts… Anyone
- That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them. Human
- She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and… Black
- Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom… Air
- Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other… Any
- Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong. Feel
- He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing,… Affirmed
- The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the… Artist
- Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you… Achieve
- Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. Alone
- Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History. Arise
- I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner… Along
- If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God,… Believe
- You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in. Fairytale
- The point of painting is not really deception or imitation. Deception
- In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do… Beliefs
- We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily… Bodies
- I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be… Central
- The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to… Beyond
- My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot… Best
- I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so… Attempt
- You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from… Books
- You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny… Always Making