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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 76 quotes by Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mantel Born Hilary Mary Thompson (1952-07-06) 6 July 1952 (age 62) Glossop, Derbyshire, UK Occupation Novelist, short story writer, essayist and critic Nationality British Alma mater University of Sheffield Notable works Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies Notable awards Man Booker Prize 2009, 2012 Walter Scott Prize 2010 Costa Novel Prize 2012 Spouse Gerald McEwen (m. 1972) Hilary Mantel's voice Sorry, your browser either has... Read full biography of Hilary Mantel → 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental... → 0 If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you... → 0 Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the... → 0 Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you. 0 I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories. 0 'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. 0 History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history... → 0 What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be exposed;... → 0 But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. 0 If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible. 0 Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. 0 My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. 0 I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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