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Only Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- 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…
- I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be…
- Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
- I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
- Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.
- For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a…
- You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and…
- You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
- The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch,…
- 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…
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