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.

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

Hilary Mantel

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

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

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

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

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.

Hilary Mantel

Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.

Hilary Mantel

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

Hilary Mantel

My first two novels were very black comedies.

My first two novels were very black comedies.

Hilary Mantel

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

Hilary Mantel

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