Hilary Mantel Time Quotations

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.