Quotes by : Hilary Mantel

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like....

He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a....

The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw....

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen....

I aim to make the fiction flexible so that it bends itself around the facts as we have them. Otherwise....

As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every....

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather....

He looks around at his guests. All are prepared. A Latin grace; English would be his choice, but he will....

England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in....