Top 76 Quotes by Hilary Mantel

About Hilary Mantel

These are some quotes by English author Hilary Mantel Writer, who was born on July 6, 1952.

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.

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

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

Hilary Mantel

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

Hilary Mantel

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

Hilary Mantel

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

Hilary Mantel

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Hilary Mantel

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

Hilary Mantel

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

Hilary Mantel

It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.

It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.

Hilary Mantel

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

Hilary Mantel

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