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Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
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Hilary Mary Thompson
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
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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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If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.
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Those who are made can be unmade.
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[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.
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If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy... 469
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I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
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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.
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To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.
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It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.
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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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My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
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She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?' He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
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[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come from? She had no mother. Her father came from a very identifiable background: religious, highly conformist.
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It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.
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Memory isn't a theme it's part of the human condition.
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The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].
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In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.
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If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.
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My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
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