A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy DBE– known as A. S. Byatt – is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1936
writing way paint
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
writing novelists hated
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
book writing people
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
writing thinking venus
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.
writing ants literature
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
writing research pieces
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
writing creative sublime
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.
writing men
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...
writing light solitude
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
writing poison terrible
It's a terrible poison, writing.
writing ease world
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
writing good-writing
Good writing is always new.
writing want and-love
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
reading writing stones
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.