I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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