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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 12:59:00 -

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:01:00 -

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:02:00 -

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:03:00 -

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:04:00 -

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:05:00 -

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:06:00 -

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:07:00 -

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.

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.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:08:00 -

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:09:00 -

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

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