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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:30:00 -

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 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.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:31:00 -

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:32:00 -

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:33:00 -

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:34:00 -

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:35:00 -

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 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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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:36:00 -

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:37:00 -

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 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.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:38:00 -

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.

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.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:39:00 -

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

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