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Book Quotes by A. S. Byatt
- Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
- I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
- When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
- I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are…
- I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
- What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
- There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and…
- Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or…
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