A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy DBE– known as A. S. Byatt – is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1936
action harm avert
Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.
thinking people palaces
I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.
work-out world fairytale
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
writing want and-love
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
safe mystery safe-places
Outside our small safe place flies mystery.
independent independent-women men
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.
writing ease world
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
lying self fiction
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction .
stars dark moon
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.
doe remember loser
One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.
looks useful-things humans
Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
children book numbers
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.
writing good-writing
Good writing is always new.
mind attention belief
Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.