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You Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It…
- Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental…
- Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
- As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
- I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
- If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or…
- 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,…
- Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to…
- It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women…
- 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 you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you…
- If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One…
- Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.
- There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life,…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide