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“I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.”

Quote by Susan Hill

Book:Mrs. de Winter

Work

Daphne du Maurier's 'Mrs. de Winter' is a gripping tale of a young woman who marries a wealthy widower, only to find herself entangled in the mysterious past of her new home and the enigmatic behavior of her husband. more

Author

Susan Hill is a renowned British author, born on February 5, 1942. She is best known for her suspense and thriller novels, with works like 'The Woman in Black' and 'The House on the Edge of the Water' gaining widespread acclaim. more

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Author:Susan Hill

“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.”

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“A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.”

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Book:Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

Source: Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.”

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Author:Eleanor Catton

“What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?”

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“I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.”

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Author:Eleanor Catton

“The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.”

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Author:George Saunders

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“Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.”

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Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December