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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Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It’s not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.
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I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.
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The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.
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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.
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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.
