What did A. S. Byatt mean by: I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do. - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England Copy
+ Things are not what they seem. Feraz Zeid, July 19, 2023December 12, 2023, A. S. Byatt, Deceived, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
+ Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, A. S. Byatt, Ink, Writing, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
+ Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History. Feraz Zeid, August 18, 2023December 12, 2023, A. S. Byatt, History, Novel, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
+ When I was a child – in wartime, pre-television – books were my life. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, A. S. Byatt, Book, Children, Television, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
+ What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, A. S. Byatt, Light, Solitude, Writing, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
+ I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, A. S. Byatt, Love, Writing, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
+ I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, A. S. Byatt, Different, Feelings, Mind, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
+ Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. Feraz Zeid, October 4, 2023December 26, 2023, A. S. Byatt, Narrative, 0 - A. S. Byatt Novelist · England
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
