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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
Novelist
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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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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 know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.
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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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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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Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
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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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