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A. S. Byatt Quotes

English - Novelist | August 24, 1936 -

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

Nothing Write Being Hated About Had

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

Words People Me Painting Writing

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

Love Effort People Think Look Keep

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.

Think Easy You Write Expect Even

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

Writing Puzzle End Someone Never

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