A. S. Byatt Quotes
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.
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The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
