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Been Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
- I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.
- I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
- I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
- I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
- Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
- I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book,…
- 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…
- My thoughts have been the thing I can rely on.
- What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.
- Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My…
- Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day, and sooner or…
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