Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.

Hilary Mantel

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
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• The real war will never get in the books.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  

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• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

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• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
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• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
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• There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

  

  Veronica Franco
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• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

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• I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

  

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• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
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• But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves.'We watch television,' Dave said.

  

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• Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?

  

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• I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.

  

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• This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

  

  Peter Marshall
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• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

  

  William Blake
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• One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Light
  • Might
  • Frustration