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From Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland…
- A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
- Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.
- If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music,…
- In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing…
- When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes…
- When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people…
- I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would…
- Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and…
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