67 Quotes by Hannah Kent

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    I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

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    I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

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    I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

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    I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

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    I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

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    Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

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    There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

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    I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

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