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Work Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real…
- I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be…
- Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
- I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.
- If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or…
- Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach