complementary-fairly-clear-boundaries-contents-head-record-even-wildest

It's complementary. It's fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making it up. But I try to make it up based on what is on the record. So even my wildest speculations [on Thomas Cromwell] will have a root somewhere.

Hilary Mantel
0/5 (0)

Hilary Mantel's Popular Quotes

Beneath every history, another history.

- Hilary Mantel

The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page a…

- Hilary Mantel

Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

- Hilary Mantel

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, i…

- Hilary Mantel

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

- 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 va…

- Hilary Mantel

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

- Hilary Mantel

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

- Hilary Mantel

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

- Hilary Mantel
0 Comments

Login to join the discussion