Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.
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…
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.
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…
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination. - Hilary Mantel
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
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.
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…
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.
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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