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A S Byatt Quotes

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books Picture Quote #1

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth’s witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban Picture Quote #1

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist Picture Quote #1

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband Picture Quote #1

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules Picture Quote #1

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven’t really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books Picture Quote #1

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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends’ automatic use of the word ‘mechanism’ for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine Picture Quote #1

Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an ending, that was the way it went Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends Picture Quote #1

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude Picture Quote #1

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Despite the snow, despite the falling snow Picture Quote #1

Things are not what they seem Picture Quote #1

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed Picture Quote #1

Lists are a form of power Picture Quote #1

History, writing, infect after a time a man’s sense of himself Picture Quote #1

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me Picture Quote #1

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He felt changed, but there was no one to tell Picture Quote #1

Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong Picture Quote #1

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity Picture Quote #1

It’s a terrible poison, writing Picture Quote #1

Good writing is always new Picture Quote #1

Outside our small safe place flies mystery Picture Quote #1

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I was no good at being a child Picture Quote #1

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by Picture Quote #1

You know, it’s a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child’s surprise at the world Picture Quote #1

One of the reasons I’ve gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality Picture Quote #1

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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books. (A S Byatt Quotes) Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth’s witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban (A S Byatt Quotes) In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist. (A S Byatt Quotes) My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband. (A S Byatt Quotes) Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules. (A S Byatt Quotes) A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven’t really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. (A S Byatt Quotes) For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends’ automatic use of the word ‘mechanism’ for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. (A S Byatt Quotes) Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an ending, that was the way it went. (A S Byatt Quotes) 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. (A S Byatt Quotes) 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. (A S Byatt Quotes) Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends (A S Byatt Quotes) What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude (A S Byatt Quotes) Despite the snow, despite the falling snow (A S Byatt Quotes) Things are not what they seem (A S Byatt Quotes) No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed (A S Byatt Quotes) Lists are a form of power (A S Byatt Quotes) History, writing, infect after a time a man’s sense of himself (A S Byatt Quotes) I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me (A S Byatt Quotes) He felt changed, but there was no one to tell (A S Byatt Quotes) Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong (A S Byatt Quotes) I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity (A S Byatt Quotes) It’s a terrible poison, writing (A S Byatt Quotes) Good writing is always new (A S Byatt Quotes) Outside our small safe place flies mystery (A S Byatt Quotes) I was no good at being a child (A S Byatt Quotes) What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books (A S Byatt Quotes) 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 (A S Byatt Quotes) Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by (A S Byatt Quotes) You know, it’s a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child’s surprise at the world (A S Byatt Quotes) One of the reasons I’ve gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality (A S Byatt Quotes)

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