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Writing Quotes by A. S. Byatt
- I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
- I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
- 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 don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
- I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
- I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
- What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
- It's a terrible poison, writing.
- The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
- There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language…
- Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
- Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.
- History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...
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