When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
Beneath every history, another history. - Hilary Mantel
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
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…
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
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…
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before. - Hilary Mantel
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. - Hilary Mantel
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination. - Hilary Mantel
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
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
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…
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative. - Hilary Mantel
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried. - Hilary Mantel
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
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