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A. S. Byatt has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good…
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to…
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and…
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things…
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human…
— Ronald Reagan
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Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
— Padgett Powell
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The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits…
— John Burroughs
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There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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The mark of a strong character lies not in doing what is fun to do or what is easy to do. The…
— Santanu Mishra
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