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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Also Ants Chaos English English Literature Literature Only Theory Understand Write I Can

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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Books Child Life My Life Wartime Were

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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

Topics: Being Book Books Children Destroys Including Life Literature Lived Many Number Often People Really Sadly Since Students Surprising Taught Tell Were Will You

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Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Car Cross Danger Front Hate Mirrors Off Pedestrian Realise Really Self-Righteous Snap Them Trying Were Wing Wish Would I Wish

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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Become Characters Come Control Early Fact He He Or She In Fact Like Look Me My Own Novels Own Person Say She Slowly Stages Take Think Together Write I Think I Write

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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Am Brain Characters Feel Fingers Guts Neurons Out Say Sympathetic Them Think Trying Work Work Out Write I Think I Am I Feel

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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Avoid Because Brain Descriptions Easy Failed How Interested Like Mental Mind My Own Own Processes Quite Scientist Simply Works

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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Colour Immediately Knows Like Me Real Think Wednesday Who I Think

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I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Attempt Breathing Feeding Find Human Just Metaphors Novels Out Possessed Science Scientists Sex Things Which

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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Angry Because Feminist Imaginations Limiting Makes Me Other Really Stand Women

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 24th, 1936

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