[h]ope Takes You By The Throat Like

Wolf Hall Attempts To Duplicate Not The Historian's Chronology But The Way Memory Works: In Leaps, Loops, Flashes.

I'm A Very Organised And Rational And Linear Thinker And You Have To Stop All That To Write A Novel.

[margaret Thatcher] Aroused Such Strong Loathing In So Many People. That's The Fact That Interests Me.

When You Are Writing Laws You Are Testing Words To Find Their Utmost Power. Like Spells, They Have To Make Things Happen In The Real World, And Like Spells, They Only Work If People Believe In Them.

[margaret] Thatcher Could Fake Her Class Background, But She Couldn't Fake The Quality Of Her Mind.