What did Hilary Mantel mean by: When people begin to talk about “our island story” my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative. - Hilary Mantel Author · England Copy
+ [Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn’t fake the quality of her mind. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Class, Fake, Mind, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Adults, Preparation, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Book, Questions And Answers, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ [T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Heart, Organs, Scales, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I’m mad. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Mad, Talking, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Narrative, Skills, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Garden, Hands, Happy, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
+ Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hilary Mantel, Home, Ideas, Travel, 0 - Hilary Mantel Author · England
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. - Miguel Angel Ruiz Author · Mexico
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. - Jean Houston Scholar
If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life. - Jean Houston Scholar
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. - Jean Little
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. - Jean M. Auel Author
