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Hilary Mantel

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

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Donna Grant

"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

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Donna Grant

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

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Donna Grant

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

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Donna Grant

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

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Donna Grant

"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

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Donna Grant

"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

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Donna Grant

"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

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Donna Grant

"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."

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Donna Grant

"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

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Donna Grant

"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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Hilary Mantel
"His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed."

Emotion

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Hilary Mantel
"There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing."

Power

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Hilary Mantel
"You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."

Humor

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Hilary Mantel
"Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried."

Feminism

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Hilary Mantel
"In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark."

Marriage

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Hilary Mantel
"The trouble with England, he thinks, is that it's so poor in gesture. We shall have to develop a hand signal for 'Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter.' He is surprised that the Italians have not done it. Though perhaps they have, and he just never caught on."

Culture

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Hilary Mantel
"He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves."

Observation

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Hilary Mantel
"As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire."

Creativity

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"He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself."

Observation

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Hilary Mantel
"Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)"

Tragedy

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