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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Best Done Going Great Men More Often Should Show Teach Than Them Truthful Want Women Writers You

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There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Capital Capital Punishment Cases Direction Every Evil Get Harassment Injustice Like Me Mess Moment Only Particular Punishment Seems Sexual Side Sides Take Things Three Two Which You

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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Before Books Ever Get Learn Least Lot Love Much Parents Watching You Your

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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Different Experiences Feeling Like Minds Naturally Way

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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Because Grew History Literature Living Love Mind Most Much Personal Philosophy Religion Science Sort Suppose Terribly Think Time Too Too Much Up Yourself

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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Dreadful Fear More Prevent Revealing Self Try You

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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Been Books Complexities English Good Idiosyncrasies Interesting Language Literary Putting Studies Terribly Theory Think Together While I Think

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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Attached Gotten Know Reality Reasons Scientists Talking

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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Always Builds Came Certain Certain Things Different Different Things Fiction Happen Historians How Learn Like Little Little Things Looks Making Map Novelist Painting Plot See Shapes Sort Things Through Tiny Up Whereas You

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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Address Am Change Change Things Go Going Issues Journalism Journalists Know Looking More Most Much Neither Nor Preachers Suspicious Than Things Want Who World Writers You I Am

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 24th, 1936

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