"I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'"

-- Hilary Mantel

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Half Quotes

“One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .”
“Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.”
“My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.”
“We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.”
“I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I’m optimistic that we’ll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.”
“When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.”

Source : "Queen Elizabeth: Christmas 'more somber' this year", www.cnn.com. December 26, 2008.
“I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas”
“A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!”

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