Hilary Mantel Quotes
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The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.
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I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
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It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.
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Margaret Thatcher was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
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If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
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I believe this was Margaret Thatcher estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."
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Margaret Thatcher admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!
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For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.
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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
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I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that Margaret Thatcher wrecked this country.
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Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
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Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
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I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
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I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way Margaret Thatcher did.
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This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.
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I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
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I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But Margaret Thatcher carried it to extremes.
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The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.
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I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
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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 and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
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Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
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When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
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The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
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It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.