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I dislike pastiche it attracts attention to the language only.

Hilary Mantel

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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
Essayist
Film Critic
Literary Critic
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Hilary Mary Thompson
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
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It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.
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History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
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When people begin to talk about our island story my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
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If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.
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He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.
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I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household.
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For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
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Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
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To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.
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[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.
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I am very happy in second-hand bookshops would a gardener not be happy in a garden?
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'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].
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[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.
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Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.
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When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
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