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Hilary Mantel Quotes: I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
         

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


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It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.



Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.



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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.



Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.



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Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.



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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.



The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.



I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.



You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.



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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.





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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.



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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.



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