A. S. Byatt Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Writing, Novelists, Hated

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• Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

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  Art, Simple, Together

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.45, Random House

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• Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

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  Lying, Book, Air

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• Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

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  Independent, Independent Women, Men

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.307, Random House

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• Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.

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  Real, Ego, Say Anything

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Sep 01, 2014

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• 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.

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  Stars, Dark, Moon

  A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

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  Writing, And Love, Want

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• Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

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  Way, Study, Chaps

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