--- title: "1 Didn Look Quotes By Simon Mawer" description: "1 Didn Look quotes by Simon Mawer. Plus more from Simon Mawer and more Didn Look sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/029/simon-mawer-23457_silences_it-wasn-t-the-way-that-viktor-and-katali_1721806.png" --- > [“It wasn’t the way that Viktor and Katalin looked at each other, it was the way they didn’t look. It wasn’t the notes, it was the silences between the notes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/it-wasn-t-the-way-that-viktor-and-katalin-looked-at-each-other-it-was/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/029/simon-mawer-23457_silences_it-wasn-t-the-way-that-viktor-and-katali_1721806.png) ## More by Simon Mawer > [I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/i-was-a-boarding-school-product-from-the-age-of-eight-and-i-hated-it/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/guernsey-itself-was-overcrowded-but-its-cliffs-were-utterly-empty-i/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/you-can-tell-nothing-from-a-man-s-appearance-nothing-except-the/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/sometimes-i-think-that-novelists-suffer-from-p-c-s-perpetual/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/when-you-look-around-now-we-have-the-war-on-terror-yes-okay-the-world/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/grief-and-guilt-a-powerful-combination-guilt-like-a-liquid-a-thin/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/when-writing-fiction-you-only-have-to-know-enough-to-be-convincing-on/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/only-occasionally-do-i-read-new-fiction-most-of-my-reading-is-heavily/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [“I'm fond of her." Oh yeah? Fond are you? I've heard of fond. I expect old erection here" - she pointed to the tube…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/i-m-fond-of-her-oh-yeah-fond-are-you-i-ve-heard-of-fond-i-expect-old/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/most-of-those-people-who-saw-themselves-as-literary-types-at/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [“Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/numbers-have-no-hidden-meanings-you-say-but-it-is-the-hidden-meanings/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [“It wasn’t the way that Viktor and Katalin looked at each other, it was the way they didn’t look. It wasn’t the notes, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/it-wasn-t-the-way-that-viktor-and-katalin-looked-at-each-other-it-was/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/sin-is-absence-of-god-nothing-more-nothing-less/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/pundits-always-have-something-to-write-about-the-novelist-just-has-a/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) > [“It is difficult to reconstruct an emotion. At times it is difficult even to admit to one. I have practiced long and hard at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mawer/it-is-difficult-to-reconstruct-an-emotion-at-times-it-is-difficult/) [Simon Mawer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mawer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/didn-look/simon-mawer/#itemlist", "name": "1 Didn Look Quotes By Simon Mawer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It wasn’t the way that Viktor and Katalin looked at each other, it was the way they didn’t look. 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