Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
A. S. ByattI grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
A. S. ByattI don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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