A. S. Byatt Quotes About Writing

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

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Ink, Hops

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.133, Random House

• Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Creative, Sublime

• History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Men

• I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Way, Paint

• Good writing is always new.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Good Writing

• What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Light, Solitude

  "As Byatt" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2004.

• I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, And Love, Want

• Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

  A. S. Byatt

  Reading, Writing, Stones

• I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Pieces, Research

• I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Literature, Ants

• 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.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Thinking, Venus

  "AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

• It's a terrible poison, writing.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Poison, Terrible

• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

  A. S. Byatt

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

  "Writing in terms of pleasure". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Research, Ease

  "AS Byatt's The Children's Book". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. April 24, 2009.

• I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Novelists, Hated

• There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.

  A. S. Byatt

  School, Writing, Artist

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