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A. S. Byatt Quotes

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

A. S. Byatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: August 24, 1936

Topics

History Reading Feel Someone Know

My favorite bands are Radiohead and Led Zeppelin, and all-time favorite album is 'Amnesiac' by Radiohead.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Led Zeppelin Favorite Led Album

But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

John Crowley

Work Happy Mind You Know Done

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Lawyer Compromise Legal

I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.

Stevie Nicks

Long Person Different Botox Four

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

Trey Parker

Hope Me Say Want Seriously Become

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Rory Stewart

Community Say Want Vote Never Even

I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of 'Morning Joe,' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon.

Mika Brzezinski

Morning I Am Reading Ready Three Up

It's cool seeing stuff, like, that come together really quickly and the reaction that it gets.

Joshua Ostrander

Together Cool Seeing Reaction Stuff

I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business.

Jason Blum

Love Business Go Movies See Big

We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.

Ashton Eaton

Me You Understand Individual Against

You want to put out a record that you feel is exactly as you want it. Nobody wants to tour for two years on a record they don't like.

Alison Mosshart

Feel You Nobody Want Two Out

The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.

Willie Geist

Great New York Child Feet Year New