Hilary Mantel Quotes

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

Turmoil stimulates.

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

There's so much uncertainty within certain players and the organization.

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

I lived with uncertainty.

I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

No one likes uncertainty.

I'm never comfortable.

I definitely have no stability in my world; I feel the need to be up and merry all the time.

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.