Desks Quote by Hilary Mantel

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

— Hilary Mantel

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well…

— Hilary Mantel

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

— Hilary Mantel

“It is not as if it is tales out of Boccaccio.' She laughs. 'They could tell Boccaccio a tale, those sinners at Wolf Hall.”

— Hilary Mantel

Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

— Damian Lewis

“Amma and I were sick just like Marian. It had to be made that obvious to me before I finally understood—nearly twenty years too…

— Gillian Flynn

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

— Dave Chappelle

A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

— R. K. Milholland

We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid…

— Stephen Schneider

“And he is dying, and I am six hundred fucking years too late to do anything about it.” “Spent”

— Rory Ni Coileain

We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late

— Richard Bray