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Explore our hand-picked selection of 154 inspiring quotes by Hilary Mantel.

About Hilary Mantel

  • Born: July 6, 1952
  • Occupation: Writer
    • [margaret thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
    Running Country Pretending
    To me, hillary [clinton] looks alright. she looks like the kind of woman i admire. she doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.
    Essentials Looks Kind
    I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. if i were to give a preliminary report, i would say that [margaret thatcher] wrecked this country.
    Country Thinking Years
    When i came to write my thomas cromwell books, i moved onto the center ground of english history, but i was never there before. i didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from northern britain, being of irish extraction, being a cradle catholic. the image of england i grew up with felt somewhere else. there was an official england in postcards, but it wasn't one i had visited. but i decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.
    Book Writing Somewhere Else
    There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].
    Interesting World Monarchy
    I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. i can't find i can get very heated about it. in the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.
    Couple Thinking Interesting
    I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.
    Thinking Mind Tomorrow
    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.
    Paper Speech Way
    [margaret] thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.
    Class Fake Mind
    One of the ideals [margaret thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. it is a paradox.
    Self Denial Greedy
    [margaret thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.
    Males Voters Should
    When i began to read as an adult, i read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. i did the russians, then i started getting more up to date. when you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.
    Fashion Book Novelists
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