"Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of……" — Hilary Mantel
"Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths."
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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site.
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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make…
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense…
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a…
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would…
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges…
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your…
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's…
— Jolene Blalock
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
— Jo Brand
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot…
— Garth Brooks
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My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire…
— Gisele Bundchen
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the…
— Truman Capote
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in…
— Nick Cave
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.…
— John Jay Chapman
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Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind…
— Margaret Cho
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