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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Because Beginnings Beings Ends Human Human Beings Love Love Stories Safely Show Stories Us

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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Claws Eye Eyes Fire His Hot Huge Hump Ice Like Live Looks Mind Shakespeare Veins Weeds Who

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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 very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

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Topics: Afraid Anything Books Complete Daughters Feeling Generation Grew Idea Kitchen Minds Mother Motherhood Never Think Up Very Where Women

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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Like Paints Way Write

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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Absence Almost His Ill Know Part Read Reason Sexuality Tolkien Total Which World

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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.

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Topics: Best Better George Human Husband Know Language Many Nature Obsession Other Professional Relationships Than Ways Writers

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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Attention Beliefs Finally Hold Make Mind Never Never Stop Paying Stop Things Up Your

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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Actually Around Children Created Edge Kind Live Most Phantoms Think Wander World Writers I Think

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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Actually After America Books Different Different Ways Editors Effort Full Keep Less Like Look Love Make Many Meeting People Please Readers Should Sort Them Think Ways Who I Think

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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 think independently.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Ask Believe Follow Independently Like People Think Who You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 24th, 1936

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