Quotes by : A.S. Byatt

You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped....

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since....

it [In Memoriam] expressed exactly the nature of her own shock and sorrow, the very structure and slow....

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God....

[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels....

For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three....

You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must....

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.