This is surely a comment about learning a lot about history before your start to write, and editing what you know into a narrative that keeps it's sense of drive, even with repeated readings. Since nowadays most books are poorly copy-edited and are littered with errors in the facts and spelling in them the chances of an author condensing what they write by nine tenths to give what they write a longer creative life for the reader then I think Hilary Mantel is right, but hopelessly optimistic.
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This is surely a comment about learning a lot about history before your start to write, and editing what you know into a narrative that keeps it's sense of drive, even with repeated readings. Since nowadays most books are poorly copy-edited and are littered with errors in the facts and spelling in them the chances of an author condensing what they write by nine tenths to give what they write a longer creative life for the reader then I think Hilary Mantel is right, but hopelessly optimistic.
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