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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 must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do…
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Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all…
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Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has…
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…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.
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I liked her…I really liked her. I wanted to protect her. I approached her in a gentle, playful manner, because she's so…
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