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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:50:00 -

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:51:00 -

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:52:00 -

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:53:00 -

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (A. S. Byatt)

2025-02-20 13:54:00 -

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.

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.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 13:55:00 -

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 13:56:00 -

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 13:57:00 -

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 13:58:00 -

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 13:59:00 -

After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

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