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A. S. Byatt
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 24
Literary Critic
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University Teacher
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Sheffield
England
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy
Antonia Susan Drabble
Antonia Susan Duffy
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
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You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.
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History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.
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Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
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Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. Falling in love, characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
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Everything is surprising, rightly seen.
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That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
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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.
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Outside our small safe place flies mystery.
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He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.
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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
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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.
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Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.
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