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Hilary Mantel Quotes

Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.

Hilary Mantel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: July 6, 1952

Topics

Change Character Step World Energy

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character People Laugh Nothing More

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Time Architecture Long Information

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield

Sea Sky Ship Lonely Down Go

'Sharp Objects' was scary, unknown territory for me. I wouldn't pick this kind of material to direct if you just gave me the book. Amy Adams was the force that drove me in.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Me Book You Kind Unknown Scary

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Jean Rostand

Independent Human Human Being Being

I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks.

Sia

Relationship Time Woman Nobody Fame

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Higher Lonelier Climbs

I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg - which is my given name - when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be this over-the-top professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, and Diamond Dallas Page became Page Joseph Falkinburg, that's when my career took off.

Diamond Dallas Page

Name Trying Career Professional Page

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Constantin Brancusi

Work God King Create Slave Like

I suppose, because I've been able to make a very good living writing books, that going out and finding another million dollars under the sea is not the fascination. The fascination is in finding the ship.

Clive Cussler

Good Sea Writing Ship Finding Out

I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.

Coco Austin

Focus Thought Done Out Take Half

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Eyes Moment People You Meeting Meet