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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.

~A. S. Byatt

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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.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Books Dangerous Destructive People Understand Very Who Why Work Write Writing

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I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Able Been Bound Certain Cheat Decided Ever Feel Game Live Look Looked Lot Match Only Result Sport Sports Television Them Think Up Watch Which I Feel

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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Biography Does Feel Happen History Know Letters Like Needs Newspaper Novelist Opposed Reading Really Someone Will Writer

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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

~A. S. Byatt

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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

~A. S. Byatt

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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.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Balances Biographies Demolish Explain Explore Great Greatness Legends Longer Redress Secret Weaknesses Written

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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.

~A. S. Byatt

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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

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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

~A. S. Byatt

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 24th, 1936

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