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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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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for…
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If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place…
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My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.
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I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but…
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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my…
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the…
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I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein…
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If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the…
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I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far…
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My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain
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As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human…
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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