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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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When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew…
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You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took…
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I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide,…
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Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books,…
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Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
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Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my…
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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked…
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The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of…
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