Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Alone

• Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Kids

• You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Father

• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Water

• Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Age

• I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career in entertainment.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Writing
  • Career

• Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.

  

  Big Smo
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.

  

  Lauren Myracle
  • Writing
  • Worry

• One of my favorites is 'Parks and Recreation.' Great show; awesome writing; beautiful, diverse cast. They also have a very diverse writer's room, which I love.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Life
  • Pain

• I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Friends
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Innocent

• If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

  

  Charley Reese
  • Envy

• There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Challenges
  • Laurels

• I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Careers