Hilary Mantel Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mother, Father, Winter

• People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

  Hilary Mantel

  Past, People, Historical

  Source: newrepublic.com

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

  Hilary Mantel

  Past, Littles, Behinds

  "Booker winner Hilary Mantel on dealing with history in fiction" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

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