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Hilary Mantel quotes: He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands. No, It passes through them, alas. He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Would they quarrel so much, if they were indifferent? Would they quarrel so much, if they were indifferent?
Hilary Mantel quotes: 'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. 'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
Hilary Mantel quotes: You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook. You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Some debts should never be tallied, he says. I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe. Some debts should never be tallied, he says. I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.
Hilary Mantel quotes: She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'""He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful. She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'"
"He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest. Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.
Hilary Mantel quotes: The migraine angel leaned hard on my shoulder and belched into my face. The migraine angel leaned hard on my shoulder and belched into my face.
Hilary Mantel quotes: No rational man could worship a God so simply vengeful No rational man could worship a God so simply vengeful
Hilary Mantel quotes: Because Islam doesn't, he said, his voice toneless, Because Islam doesn't, he said, his voice toneless,
Hilary Mantel quotes: Arrange your face Arrange your face
Hilary Mantel quotes: If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible. If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do. Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.
Hilary Mantel quotes: An elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant. An elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant.
Hilary Mantel quotes: The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards. The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards.
Hilary Mantel quotes: If your going to be ugly it is well to be whole-hearted about it, put some effort in. Georges turned heads. If your going to be ugly it is well to be whole-hearted about it, put some effort in. Georges turned heads.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I can't divide Camille's loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice. I can't divide Camille's loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.
Hilary Mantel quotes: When he wakes he has to learn the lack of her all over again When he wakes he has to learn the lack of her all over again
Hilary Mantel quotes: I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only. I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
Hilary Mantel quotes: For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature. For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up. I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Look at my face: I am not afraid of any man alive. Look at my face: I am not afraid of any man alive.
Hilary Mantel quotes: No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself. No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Nothing hurts, or perhaps it's that everything hurts, because there is no separate pain that he can pick out. Nothing hurts, or perhaps it's that everything hurts, because there is no separate pain that he can pick out.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Paper reassures me, its touch. It's what you respect. Paper reassures me, its touch. It's what you respect.
Hilary Mantel quotes: [H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap ... [H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap ...
Hilary Mantel quotes: May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" - what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term! May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" - what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!
Hilary Mantel quotes: 'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. 'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
Hilary Mantel quotes: What for do we nail down the dead? What for do we nail down the dead?
Hilary Mantel quotes: But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
Hilary Mantel quotes: There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins. There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.
Hilary Mantel quotes: You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do. You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.
Hilary Mantel quotes: There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura. There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness. Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.
Hilary Mantel quotes: distraught. It seems he claims distraught. It seems he claims
Hilary Mantel quotes: Call no man happy. Call no man happy until he has gone down to his grave in peace. Call no man happy. Call no man happy until he has gone down to his grave in peace.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line. I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
Hilary Mantel quotes: He is tired out from the effort of deciphering the world. Tired from the effort of smiling at the foe. He is tired out from the effort of deciphering the world. Tired from the effort of smiling at the foe.
Hilary Mantel quotes: In these matters, the cardinal says, there is no measure of time; these spirits slip from our hands and through the ages, serpentine, mutable, sly. In these matters, the cardinal says, there is no measure of time; these spirits slip from our hands and through the ages, serpentine, mutable, sly.
Hilary Mantel quotes: It's not easy to speak of nonexistence, even if you've already commissioned your tomb. It's not easy to speak of nonexistence, even if you've already commissioned your tomb.
Hilary Mantel quotes: By the tits of Holy Agnes By the tits of Holy Agnes
Hilary Mantel quotes: He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves. He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.
Hilary Mantel quotes: My thoughts have been the thing I can rely on. My thoughts have been the thing I can rely on.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Coffee was served: bitter and black, like chances missed. Coffee was served: bitter and black, like chances missed.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind. Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I felt a wish to be fictionalized. I felt a wish to be fictionalized.
Hilary Mantel quotes: When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered. When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Martyr More,' he says. 'The word is in Rome that he and Fisher are to be made saints. Martyr More,' he says. 'The word is in Rome that he and Fisher are to be made saints.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Why doesn't Yasmin distinguish ... between private morality and public order? Why doesn't Yasmin distinguish ... between private morality and public order?
Hilary Mantel quotes: Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice. Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I think it's just people. They always hope there may be something better. I think it's just people. They always hope there may be something better.
Hilary Mantel quotes: And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better. And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
Hilary Mantel quotes: History is a set of skills rather than a narrative. History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
Hilary Mantel quotes: My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady. My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead. Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
Hilary Mantel quotes: My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Hilary Mantel quotes: We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles. We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Masters, it is good pastime to have a wife. When they have listened Masters, it is good pastime to have a wife. When they have listened
Hilary Mantel quotes: A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Fortitude ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you. Fortitude ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading. Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.
Hilary Mantel quotes: If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy ... 469 If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy ...
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Hilary Mantel quotes: I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
Hilary Mantel quotes: He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming. He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.
Hilary Mantel quotes: peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to
Hilary Mantel quotes: Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know. Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus! Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!
Hilary Mantel quotes: Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due. Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.
Hilary Mantel quotes: It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells. It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it. Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
Hilary Mantel quotes: They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks. They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.
Hilary Mantel quotes: In a generation everything can change. In a generation everything can change.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom. I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.
Hilary Mantel quotes: The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them. The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.
Hilary Mantel quotes: You have always regarded women as disposable, my lord, and you cannot complain if in the end they think the same of you. You have always regarded women as disposable, my lord, and you cannot complain if in the end they think the same of you.
Hilary Mantel quotes: There is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it.390 There is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it.
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Hilary Mantel quotes: They always say, we'll just do another year. It's called the golden handcuffs. They always say, we'll just do another year. It's called the golden handcuffs.
Hilary Mantel quotes: What kind of persons writes fiction about the past?"- "The kind of person for whom one lifetime is not enough."- Hilary Mantel What kind of persons writes fiction about the past?"
- "The kind of person for whom one lifetime is not enough."

- Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel quotes: Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing. Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
Hilary Mantel quotes: [T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale. [T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
Hilary Mantel quotes: What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different. What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person. I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition. Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan. Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you. Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.
Hilary Mantel quotes: crenellations, the scarlet and the pale, the airy stone and the crenellations, the scarlet and the pale, the airy stone and the
Hilary Mantel quotes: We don't have to invite pain in.It's waiting for us:sooner than later We don't have to invite pain in.It's waiting for us:sooner than later
Hilary Mantel quotes: His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.
Hilary Mantel quotes: he is sui generis, a scholar and a wit. he is sui generis, a scholar and a wit.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I was bound to step out of line, if only because I did not know where the line was: if only because I did not know anything. I was bound to step out of line, if only because I did not know where the line was: if only because I did not know anything.
Hilary Mantel quotes: God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation. God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Anne says, "It is all about me. Anne says, "It is all about me.
Hilary Mantel quotes: If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels. If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.
Hilary Mantel quotes: Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up. Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.
Hilary Mantel quotes: you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose. you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose.
Hilary Mantel quotes: History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
Hilary Mantel quotes: I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

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