Monday’s Hilary Mantel Quote — & A Question Answered :-)

On Monday, I featured the following quote from Hilary Mantel, as part of remembering the author Maggie O’Farrell has described as the “queen of literature”:

“Many kinds of writing can be done in the unabashed light of day and by a precise intellectual process, but I think fiction that has layers and depths — the kind you can read twice* — has to come from an inner location that is in some way fogged, a place that is a continuing mystery to the author. When you begin  a project you don’t want to ...