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A. S. Byatt Quotes

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Aesthetic Trying You Pleasure Reader

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

Simplicity Writing Hands Become Just

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Medical Remember Risk Certainty Must

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Jennifer Capriati

Life Path Identity Me World My Life

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

Good Political Result Country Now

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

Moment I Am Thinking Write Odd Am

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

Rose Writing Control Singing My Own

Stars was really good training. You know, we would come in at noon, and, you know, we would learn at that time what we were going to cook that evening. And, you know, there wasn't a set menu per se.

Good Stars Time Training Evening

Investors like to invest based on traction, so it's always better to raise money when you've got more traction than less.

Money Better You More Always Got

I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.

Proud Loved Nice Boy Altar Strict

It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating.

Janina Gavankar

Life Love People Ridiculous Same

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Succeed Reality You Lesson Sometimes

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and - this is the tricky part - remembering.

People Listening Writing Someone

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