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Thinking Quotes by A. S. Byatt
- I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're…
- I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
- I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
- I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
- In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
- On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces…
- I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are…
- I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
- I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.
- I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
- Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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