“I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.” — A. S. Byatt Quote

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

I hated modeling.

They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.