Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources?

Hilary Mantel

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Fake news The internet Truth vs. fiction Truth

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Hilary Mantel

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Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Mantel, Hilary. Quoted in "The Art of Fiction No. 226." Interviewed by Mona Simpson. Paris Review, no. 212, Spring 2015, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel.

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