History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. -Hilary Mantel History
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. -Hilary Mantel Age
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you. -Hilary Mantel Imagination
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him. -Hilary Mantel Knowledge
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness. -Hilary Mantel Medical
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel. -Hilary Mantel Travel
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him. -Hilary Mantel History
