Author: A. S. Byatt

Quotes

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

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

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

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

- A. S. Byatt

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