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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
Men
Time
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.
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I don't only write about English literature I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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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.
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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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...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.
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Things are not what they seem.
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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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.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.
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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.
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Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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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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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.
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I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
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Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
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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.
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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