Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
July 6, 1952

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE, FRSL is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.

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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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- Way
- Ideas
- Seems
It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

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- Jokes

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

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I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

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- Skills
- Narrative