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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
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Film Critic
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Hilary Mary Thompson
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
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[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.
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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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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
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[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.
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[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!
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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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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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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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[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.
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I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.
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Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
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My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms on the cover. Basically, it meant historical romance. It was not respectable as a genre.
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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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Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.
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I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].
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[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
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No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.
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