Hilary Mantel
Related I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me. RACHEL GIBSON I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like ... MANOJ BHARGAVA I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me. CHARLOTTE LE BON ANTHONY BURGESS MARTHA GELLHORN SOPHIE KINSELLA STEVE BUSCEMI KAZUO ISHIGURO I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me. BEATRICE DALLE For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It see... DANIEL WOODRELL GARTH RISK HALLBERG I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped. MARTY ROBBINS I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly writ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. MARY GARDEN CHRISTIAN BALE BILL BRUFORD It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu... BILLY BRAGG DOROTHY PARKER I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection. ETEL ADNAN RAY BRADBURY CAROL BURNETT One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the... SHANE MCANALLY I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutor... ISABEL GILLIES RICHARD MATHESON MAEVE BINCHY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ASHTON KUTCHER TIM CAHILL INGRID BERGMAN I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women... IDA LUPINO PAUL THEROUX I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I'v... ANN BRASHARES When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone... CAITRIONA BALFE I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who ju... TAHAR RAHIM TAMORA PIERCE When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familia... SATYAJIT RAY ANGELINA JOLIE I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT ADRIANA TRIGIANI I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.... PATRICK CARMAN SUZANNE COLLINS I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their... ABIGAIL BRESLIN I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing. HARMON KILLEBREW Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don&#... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI MINDY KALING I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write dire... ADAM SCHLESINGER KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I let people write about whatever it is they wanted to remember about McDonald. It had to be their s... ALICE LIENARD THOMASSY I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are... GARRETT DILLAHUNT When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or a... JUDY BLUME My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w... TAO LIN DREW GILPIN FAUST I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn... BURN GORMAN I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno... BONNIE MCKEE I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same... LAWRENCE HALPRIN When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be in... JACK PRELUTSKY NICKI MINAJ JOSEPH BRUCHAC I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write ab... LOUIS L'AMOUR MAGGIE HASSAN But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin... GEORGE SAINTSBURY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st... LAURA HILLENBRAND BRIE LARSON MARY BALOGH I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people. DAVID CARUSO GARY SHEFFIELD NICK CAVE SHANNON LUCID HARUKI MURAKAMI You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world a... GEORGE H. W. BUSH I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it. TAISSA FARMIGA EMILIA FOX I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call th... ELLIOT PERLMAN I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. KATE ADIE DORIS LESSING I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so ... BERENICE MARLOHE FIDEL CASTRO MARK MILLAR You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, li... GENE HACKMAN I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes. DAVID FINCHER E. L. DOCTOROW That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was... CAB CALLOWAY I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. BALTHUS I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. EMILY GIFFIN OCTAVIA E. BUTLER DAVID EDWARDS MIRANDA JULY I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lun... GRAHAM KENNEDY You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even ... JOYCELYN ELDERS The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything ... MARGUERITE YOUNG BRAD GORESKI When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and... EVAN DAUGHERTY BRENDON URIE ANDY KINDLER
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(on Book TV). HILARY HEMINGWAY I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that... HILARY DUFF HILARY SWANK Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. HILARY DUFF When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and th... HILARY DUFF HILARY SWANK It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions... HILARY DUFF Throughout my discussions I was confident that a way through the problems could be found and that a ... HILARY ARMSTRONG It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can... HILARY ARMSTRONG We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remai... HILARY ARMSTRONG Does he honestly believe that his constituents would prefer to see him lounging about in the Big Bro... 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When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... 
I didn't write. I just wandered about. 
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... 
I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously. 
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w... 
If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a bette... 
I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too muc... 
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying t... 
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si... 
When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist... 
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... 
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like... 
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn... 
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want ... 
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can&#... 
My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politic... 
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I did... 
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ... 
I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image le... 
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried... 
When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work. 
I never knew anybody who didn't want to have a great love in their lives and to make a family. 
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. 
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. The... 
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it. 
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I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... 
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period... 
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I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. 
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I like to play women who blaze trails. 
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I love to travel. I'm a curious person. 
They arrived home again to a most peculiar sight. The small garden at the front of the Banana House ...