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Book Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It…
- A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
- For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a…
- I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book,…
- Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter…
- I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would…
- Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space…
- Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you…
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- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood