"Like many people, I am addicted to the……" — Hilary Mantel

"Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading."

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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel

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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make…
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense…
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a…
Beneath every history, another history.
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would…
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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