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
I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the importance of empathy and understanding different perspectives.
A. S. Byatt highlights the natural inclination to explore and understand diverse thoughts and experiences. This pursuit enriches one's own understanding of the world and fosters deeper connections with others through empathy and shared narratives.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of empathy in education.
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.
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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.
Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
But it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it.
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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