"Write a book you'd like to read. If……" — 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 may well have vanished by the time your book's ready."
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109 Quotes by Hilary Mantel
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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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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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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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And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a…
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