Author: A. S. Byatt

Quotes

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

- A. S. Byatt

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

- A. S. Byatt

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

- A. S. Byatt

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

- A. S. Byatt

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