Hilary Mantel on fiction

Quote of the day: “If the free market is indeed the moral courtroom which its admirers claim, then what a judgement is being visited on Fleet Street.”

Quote of the day: “Another legend, Louise Brooks, once wrote a text about Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs in which she acknowledged the importance of the sexual angle.”

Favourite stage direction: “Despite being based, albeit very loosely, on several true stories, this play is a work of fiction.”

Quote of the day: “Our theatre ecology is enriched by brave producers who champion new writing, and so the fact that Vicky Graham is a young commercial producer who has chosen to c…