"Suppose within each book there is another book,……" — Hilary Mantel
"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 on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives."
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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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When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem,…
— Isaac Asimov
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The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book
— Holly Lisle
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to…
— Bernard Cornwell
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I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books,…
— Caroline B. Cooney
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Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for…
— Cassandra King
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I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never…
— George R. R. Martin
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I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going…
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
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At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened…
— Neil Sheehan
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Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that…
— Aaron Swartz
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Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
— Sarah Dessen
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There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name…
— John McEnroe
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I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by…
— Charles Frazier
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