A. S. Byatt Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
A. S. Byatt quotes and sayings page 5 (novelist). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 65 we have.
“You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.”
“I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.”
“I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.”
“I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.”
“I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.”
“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.”
“I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.”
“I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.”
“I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.”
“I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.”
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