I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
A. S. ByattI am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
A. S. ByattBooks that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A. S. Byatt