I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
A. S. ByattI'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
A. S. ByattI think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
A. S. ByattOn buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
A. S. Byatt