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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Am Being Central Character Children Done Fact Fairy Fairy Tales Favourable Good How How Much In Fact Mostly Much Outcome Rewarded Simply Sure Tales Telling Virtue Whole Will I Am

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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Aesthetic Certain Failing Imagine Pleasure Reader Trying Unimaginable You

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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Belief Deep Interested Look Moral Myself Other Out Should Things Very You

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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Believes England Everyone Feel Feeling Joining Novels Then Think Thinking Together You

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The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Beyond Cannot Confines Exercise Freedom Grace Inside Know Lies Move Seek Space Tasted Touched True Wisely

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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Humans Inhibitions Look Lose Quite Some Them Things Useful Where Without Would You

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It's a terrible poison, writing.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Poison Terrible Writing

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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Art Important Important Things Lot Me More Than Things Think World I Think

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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Academic Academically Am Good Happens Novel Novelist Quite Who Written I Am

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Books Else Everybody Everybody Else Expect Interested More People Than

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 24th, 1936

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