"I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would……" — Hilary Mantel
"I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?"
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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site.
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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make…
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense…
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a…
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would…
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges…
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More Bookshops Quotes
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I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.…
— John Banville
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I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
— Heinz Pagels
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Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.
— Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a…
— David Almond
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I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made…
— Jerry Pinto
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Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my…
— Tim Waterstone
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was…
— Jules de Goncourt
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
— John Cowper Powys
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My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile,…
— Tim Waterstone
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Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't…
— Frederick Busch
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