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History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.
A. S. Byatt
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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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The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.
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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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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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An odd phrase, by heart, he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.
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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
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I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
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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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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.
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Outside our small safe place flies mystery.
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