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Hilary Mantel Quotes

My first two novels were very black comedies Picture Quote #1

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography Picture Quote #1

92, 93, 94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death Picture Quote #1

Beneath every history, another history Picture Quote #1

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you Picture Quote #1

If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn’t have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can’t find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting Picture Quote #1

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Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of 94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck Picture Quote #1

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap Picture Quote #1

$When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives Picture Quote #1$

Back in my 20s, when I wrote ‘A Place of Greater Safety,’ the French Revolution novel, I thought, ‘I’ll always have to write historical novels because I can’t do plots.’’ But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things Picture Quote #1

Insights don’t usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I’m on the move. Or half-asleep Picture Quote #1

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can’t remember ever reading a story without judging it Picture Quote #1

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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday’s unrecollected sins Picture Quote #1

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you Picture Quote #1

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way Picture Quote #1

At New Year’s he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people Picture Quote #1

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn’t remember me. You never even saw me coming Picture Quote #1

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home Picture Quote #1

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History is a set of skills rather than a narrative Picture Quote #1

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone Picture Quote #1

You don’t get on by being original. You don’t get on by being bright. You don’t get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook Picture Quote #1

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it’s not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns Picture Quote #1

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can’t help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you Picture Quote #1

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn’t choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity Picture Quote #1

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When I was a child, there was very little money, so I’ve always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life Picture Quote #1

Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It’s better to say that you haven’t got the right pencil than to say you can’t write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it’s better lost Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 shift in the pattern tends to trip another Picture Quote #1

I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen Picture Quote #1

It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we’re going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical Picture Quote #1

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My first two novels were very black comedies (Hilary Mantel Quotes) For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography (Hilary Mantel Quotes) 92, 93, 94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Beneath every history, another history (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you (Hilary Mantel Quotes) If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn’t have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can’t find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of 94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck (Hilary Mantel Quotes) [H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap (Hilary Mantel Quotes) When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Back in my 20s, when I wrote ‘A Place of Greater Safety,’ the French Revolution novel, I thought, ‘I’ll always have to write historical novels because I can’t do plots.’’ But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Insights don’t usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I’m on the move. Or half-asleep (Hilary Mantel Quotes) But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can’t remember ever reading a story without judging it (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday’s unrecollected sins (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way (Hilary Mantel Quotes) At New Year’s he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people (Hilary Mantel Quotes) He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn’t remember me. You never even saw me coming (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home (Hilary Mantel Quotes) History is a set of skills rather than a narrative (Hilary Mantel Quotes) God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone (Hilary Mantel Quotes) You don’t get on by being original. You don’t get on by being bright. You don’t get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it’s not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can’t help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn’t choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) When I was a child, there was very little money, so I’ve always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It’s better to say that you haven’t got the right pencil than to say you can’t write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it’s better lost. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) 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. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) 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 shift in the pattern tends to trip another. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen. (Hilary Mantel Quotes) It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we’re going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical. (Hilary Mantel Quotes)

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