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Hilary Mantel: “locked in competition with myself”

March 13, 2010

“The idea of authors competing with each other is strange, not strange on a worldly level, but on a psychic level. I have always seen myself as locked in competition with myself, my own doubts and hesitations, my own limitations, and like any working writer I live with a daily process of selecting and judging and discarding which is fiercer than anything that can happen in the outside world.”

— Hilary Mantel

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Hilary Mantel, quotes for writers

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