In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're... →
Joe Mansueto
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date... →
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... →
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and... →
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be... →
Joe Mantello
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
Mickey Mantle
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the... →