A. S. Byatt Quotes
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?
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The good show is not about people fighting or getting drunk or throwing up on each other, or hating each other - it's about celebrating people's talent.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
