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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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True love stories never have endings.
— Richard Bach
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I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10…
— Drew Barrymore
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I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares?…
— Monica Bellucci
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
— A. S. Byatt
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling…
— Harlan Coben
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
— Aleister Crowley
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I could send myself right back to the day that I wrote "Angel Of The Morning," how it felt. I had a…
— Chip Taylor
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In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong…
— Chow Yun-Fat
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I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.
— Alexandra Daddario
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that…
— Amina Mama
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I think women love to read love stories.
— E. L. James
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