"I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped……" — Hilary Mantel
"I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen."
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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 Atmosphere Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
— Alain de Botton
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
— Madeleine Albright
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
— Alexis Carrel
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
— Winston Churchill
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