571 Quotes by 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.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

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've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

My thoughts have been the thing I can rely on.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

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