Quotes by : A.S. Byatt

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim....

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture....

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

Good writing is always new.

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

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be....

They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously,"....

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

In the end it wins a king's daughter, who is expected to burn its hedgehog-skin at night, and does so,....