"Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape,……" — Hilary Mantel
"Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts."
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature…
— Larry Bird
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We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental…
— Alex Campbell
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is…
— Chanakya
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and…
— Leonard Cohen
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain…
— Laozi
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift;…
— J. Reuben Clark
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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
— Richard Avedon
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Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness…
— Bruce Lee
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
— Unknown Author
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We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap…
— John E. Jones III
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