A. S. Byatt Quotes

No one knows the three-dimensional story of who I am. Or anyone is.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

The characters I write about are very internal.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.