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A. S. Byatt Quotes - Page 4

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.

"AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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

"Writing in terms of pleasure". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

"As Byatt" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2004.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

"Possession". Book by A. S. Byatt, 1990.