"I am usually protective of my work, not……" — Hilary Mantel

"I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished."

— Hilary Mantel

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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make…
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains…
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense…
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a…
Beneath every history, another history.
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would…
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains…
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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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More Anyone Quotes

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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about… — Neil Armstrong
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize… — Andrea Arnold
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one… — Diane Ackerman
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. — Teresa of Avila
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else… — Richard Bach
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. — Burt Bacharach

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