Way Quotes by Hilary Mantel

10 Way quotes by Hilary Mantel

Mantel’s prose often maps the terrain of power and conscience, and this brief set reflects that focus. The excerpts give a glimpse of her narrative compass, making it a solid starter for readers interested in her take on direction.

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I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

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This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems…

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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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If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think…

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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…

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For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of…

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My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sensory images…

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The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many…

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I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I…

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For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps…

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“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It…

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“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind…

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“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…

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“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I…

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Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

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“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our…

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“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…

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“Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my…

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I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the…

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“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths,…

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