On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
A. S. ByattI like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
A. S. ByattAn odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.
A. S. ByattI don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
A. S. Byatt