…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. A. S. Byatt More Quotes by A. S. Byatt More Quotes From A. S. Byatt She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark. A. S. Byatt stars moon dark That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them. A. S. Byatt human-nature want people For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth". A. S. Byatt lasts three two On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors. A. S. Byatt stars unique thinking 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 hate mirrors self When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. A. S. Byatt book children television What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. A. S. Byatt solitude light writing There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. A. S. Byatt failing imagine trying I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them. A. S. Byatt curiosity hate thinking 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 our-world mind brain 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 feelings believe thinking I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. A. S. Byatt hated novelists writing Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. A. S. Byatt later-in-life giving book 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 academic novelists happens 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 pieces research writing I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently. A. S. Byatt believe people thinking 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 venus writing thinking I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful. A. S. Byatt absence reason world I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. A. S. Byatt ants literature writing You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere. A. S. Byatt elsewhere safe desire
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