“As a little girl, I didn’t like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

~A. S. Byatt

English novelist, poet, and Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt was born on this day in 1936.