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[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

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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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As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.
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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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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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Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
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[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
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I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
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Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
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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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[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.
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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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I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
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Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
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It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
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Memory isn't a theme it's part of the human condition.
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Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
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