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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

~A. S. Byatt

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I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Also Because Before Blocks Care Color Forms Itself Like Me Metaphor Musical Never Painting People Reduced See Something Something People Think Words Write Writing I Think I See

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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Commercial Easy Easy Thing Even Expect Thing Think Venus Write You

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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: All-Powerful Being Book Clever Clues Comforted Death End Enough Find May Neatly Packaged Playing Pleasure Puzzle Reduced Revealed Rules Satisfactory Solution Something Take Through Which Why

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I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Able Agatha Christie Been Decide End Herself Killer Never Pleasure Purely Puzzle Read Reader Someone Until Who Writing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 24th, 1936

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