There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
A. S. ByattI don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
A. S. ByattI think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
A. S. ByattI think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A. S. ByattHe was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.
A. S. Byatt