One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
A. S. ByattNarration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.
A. S. ByattI do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
A. S. Byatt