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. A. S. Byatt Read Quote
A surprising number of people – including many students of literature – will tell you they haven’t really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. A. S. Byatt Read Quote
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me. A. S. Byatt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and… ants. I can understand ants. A. S. Byatt Read Quote
Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs. A. S. Byatt Read Quote
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can’t do it. A. S. Byatt Read Quote
I’m quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I’m a failed scientist, and because I’m interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions. A. S. Byatt Read Quote
