A. S. Byatt Quotes

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Everybody in life is a chameleon.

I've been likened to a chameleon through my entire career.

I'm like Loki in Nordic mythology: one day I'll be a woman and the next day a snake.

I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon.

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

Life is like dancing...changing all the time.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.

One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.