“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“Information without truth bred skepticism; skepticism without truth bred submission.” — Brutus Copy Share Image
“Home isn't a safe place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury” — T.K. Thorne Copy Share Image
“Their renewed sense of hope had fired up their fatigued muscles like a burst of steam powering a locomotive.” — Rich DiSilvio Copy Share Image
“Atty’s eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!” — Tricia Murphy Copy Share Image
“An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
“Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown… — Kimberly Cutter Copy Share Image
“Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
“I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind, Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Alana Marks had always known she was different. From her gypsy childhood, to the way she now made her living in the… — Barbara Kyle Copy Share Image
“Son of a beast tried to bite me when I turned my back to the billets!"... Nostrils flaring and ears pinned, the… — Emery Lee Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we… — John Bowen Copy Share Image
“I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up"- then Alex looked… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“To Jana's mind everybody seemed happy to see BAbichka and resisted returning her, like a misplaced package sent to the wrong address.… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“He found Granny on the porch, asleep. Her chin sat on her chest, rising and falling with her breath. He gathered her… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
“What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?' Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. 'As much as I enjoy giving… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I am not sure about anything. But if we don’t have hope, we don’t have anything.” — Kristin Harmel Copy Share Image
“What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history” — Peter Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame,… — Andrea Zuvich Copy Share Image
“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.” — Abigail Green Copy Share Image
“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered” — Afiena Kamminga Copy Share Image
“True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)” — Emery Lee Copy Share Image
“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...” — John Julius Norwich Copy Share Image
“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“We’re all selfish monsters— the only difference is some of us are more honest about it than others.” — Nick Martell Copy Share Image
“They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...” — Andrea Zuvich Copy Share Image
“If I had two breaths left in me, the first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the… — Katarina Jovic Copy Share Image
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.” — Brutus Copy Share Image