The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. ByattRead
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a deep appreciation for the beauty and creativity found in the act of writing.
In this quote, A. S. Byatt emphasizes the joy and excitement that comes from engaging with the written word. The imagery of 'hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink' suggests the artist's delight in the spontaneous and dynamic nature of writing, highlighting how words can evoke emotions and create vivid imagery that resonates with the reader.
Themes
WritingCreativityArtExpressivenessBeauty
In practice
Example use cases
This quote would be perfect to share at a literary festival to inspire fellow writers.
More from A. S. Byatt
All quotes →It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
A. S. ByattRead
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
A. S. ByattRead
Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
A. S. ByattRead
I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
A. S. ByattRead
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A. S. ByattRead
Similar quotes
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Gordon ParksRead
It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?
Jennifer EganRead
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.
Gunter GrassRead
I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.
Jimmy PageRead
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Robert FrostRead
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
Sonia RykielRead