“I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.” ThinkingWayI CanHatePoliticianMalesLove And Hate Author:Hilary Mantel
“I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.” KnowsWayHas BeensProblemCertainCausesMoralTroubleSpeechPaperPapersKate Author:Hilary Mantel
“For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.” PeopleWayLooksSaidMightMovingSidesLevelsRecordsJudgmentNovelistsInterpretationGapsHistorianDocumentsBiographers Author:Hilary Mantel
“The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.” WayFirstsRealEffortAttentionPagesDialoguePlotAdoreRubbishIvyClumsyCompton Author:Hilary Mantel
“As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.” WorldWayCertainStuckRutsStuck In A Rut Author:Hilary Mantel
“Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.” WayMemoriesHallsLeapHistorianFlashLoopsDuplicateChronology Author: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.” KnowsWayBookDifferentRunningTogetherBitsLinesCommonKnow HowObjectsMetaphorDialogueNarrativeDescriptionIsolatedThreadConstructsSequenceScrapCollages Author:Hilary Mantel
“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.” ThinkingWayIdeasSeemsPeculiarCamille Book:Three-Book Edition: A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant O’Brien Source: Three-Book Edition: A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant O’Brien
