Hilary Mantel Quotes

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Hilary Mantel

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