A. S. Byatt Quotes
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
A. S. Byatt
Quotes to Explore
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
Oscar Isaac
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
Hans Kung
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
Daniel Craig
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What I have on my left calf is two skeletons; when you put them together, they form a heart, and it says, 'Love till Death.' That represents me and my wife - 'til death do us part.
Rey Mysterio
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Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.
Lakhdar Boumediene
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
Irvine Welsh
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
A. S. Byatt