Quotes by : A.S. Byatt

Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or....

She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to school,....

It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight,....

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not....

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of....

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end....

The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge.....

The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the....

There are things, also, that are memories as essential and structural as bones in toes and fingers.

I think, yes, a man and a woman can be good friends, but it isn't easy for them being as no one else....