Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.Hilary Mantel
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah -
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
Tao Lin
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
Joanne Rowling -
Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
Zinedine Zidane -
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
Laura Wade -
Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
Dakota Fanning -
I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
Aaron Swartz
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White -
Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.
Eric Davis -
The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.
Jaye Davidson -
I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.
Amanda Bynes -
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
Paul Theroux -
For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.
Albert R. Broccoli
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
Nancy Cartwright -
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale -
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
Marshall McLuhan -
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith -
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.
Hilary Mantel