In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
A. S. ByattOne of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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. ByattDon't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
A. S. Byatt