Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!” — Leonard Leventon Copy Share Image
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...” — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.” — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.” — Rhonda Fink-Whitman Copy Share Image
“Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.” — Myra Hargrave McIlvain Copy Share Image
“Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools… — J. Dylan Yates Copy Share Image
“He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then… — Susan Spence Copy Share Image
“He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“I stand now at a crossroads. I see before me the route to virtue, at an intersection with the route to love.… — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
“The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Claudie wrinkled her nose. 'I don't think anyone would buy a ticket to see me perform,' she said. Selma laughed. 'What do… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Sir, you do understand that - officially - I'm not actually a centurion. I haven't even been assigned to a legion yet.'… — Nick Brown Copy Share Image
“The blind faith in some half-assed conspiracy theories lines up with the logic of having to believe in something with no questions… — Asaad Almohammad Copy Share Image
“What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese. 'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Stuff and nonsense: you must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided… — Adam Yamey Copy Share Image
“There was a sudden flash of lightning which brightly illuminated our faces. I squinted against the harsh light. It was soon followed… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.” — Donald Riggio Copy Share Image
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
“He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say!” — Logan Crowe Copy Share Image
“I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Cowan son of Branieucc, you're the only one of my people that I know for sure still lives.” — Sandi Layne Copy Share Image
“Maybe we both let our fears push each other away. But we don't have to do that anymore.” — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
“In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).” — Danny Saunders Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.” — Mona Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“You’re a lady. It’s written all over you, but the West doesn’t forgive any woman-unless she’s got a man.” — Liliana Shelbrook Copy Share Image
“The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.” — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
