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A. S. Byatt Quotes

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

A. S. Byatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Together Me Control Think Look Say

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

Amy Bloom

Good Cake Me Alive Matter Just

Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.

Stephen Hough

Joy People Musicians Mission Want

Dance music always goes through its changes; many styles come have their light and go back to the underground 'til it happens again.

Little Louie Vega

Music Light Dance Back Go Changes

I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions.

Jorge Ramos

Simple Questions Answer Asking Been

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Denis Diderot

Hands Kings Rope Priest Guts Would

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Arnold Bennett

Culture Man Old Man Wonder Person

My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.

Phil Jackson

Work Mother Moving Doing Europe

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Rick Riordan

Good Think Will More Books Kids

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.

Martin Freeman

Ship You Know Kind Mean Difficult

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

Mark Shand

Love Bond Strong Play Intelligent

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

Leon Panetta

You Way Knowing Without Going Harm

The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Children Myself Me Nobody Knows Had