Top 25 Quotes by A. S. Byatt of 108 - Page 5

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

Writing, Novelists, Hated

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

A. S. Byatt

Art, Simple, Together

A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.45, Random House

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

A. S. Byatt

Lying, Book, Air

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

A. S. Byatt

Feelings, Mind, Different

Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.

A. S. Byatt

Real, Ego, Say Anything

FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Sep 01, 2014

She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.

A. S. Byatt

Stars, Dark, Moon

A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.10, Canongate Books