AS Byatt obituary

Nov 17, 2023 | inkl.com | AS Byatt obituary |AS Byatt

AS Byatt at home in west London in 2009. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian The novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was throughout her existence a victim of Samuel Johnson’s “hunger of the imagination that preys incessantly upon life, and must be always appeased by some employment”. In the words of one of her own heroines, whatever in the moral abstract she thought about the relative importance of writing and life, nothing mattered to her more than writing.

Nov 17, 2023 | upstract.com | AS Byatt obituary

The novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was throughout her existence a victim of Samuel Johnson’s “hunger of the imagination that preys incessantly upon life, and must be always appeased by some employment”.

Nov 17, 2023 | richardhartley.com | AS Byatt obituary |Richard Hartley

The novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was throughout her existence a victim of Samuel Johnson’s “hunger of the imagination that preys incessantly upon life, and must be always appeased by some employment”. In the words of one of her own heroines, whatever in the moral abstract she thought about the relative importance of writing and life, nothing mattered to her more than writing.