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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
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

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.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

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.

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.

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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.