“If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.” — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.” — Mark McGinty Copy Share Image
“Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.” — Dr. J. E. Cross Copy Share Image
“Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.” — Tanja Kobasic Copy Share Image
“About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.” — Belinda Jack Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“A sudden yearning to hold Artagan close overtakes me, to smell the scent of his skin and run my hands through his… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
“I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Denial is like a glass wall, easy to see beyond, but impossible to walk through.” — The Doctor’s Daughter: Totally heartbreaking and… — Shari J. Ryan Copy Share Image
“The stars twinkled high above and reflected onto the cold window. I blew on the frosty glass and watched my breath fog… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and… — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball.… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You know what it's like when a cart overturns in the street? Everybody you meet has witnessed it. They saw a man's… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“He draws a line under his conclusions. Says, 'Gregory, what should I do about the great worm?' 'Send a commission against it,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Snow crunched under the feet of three cloaked figures – a queen, her lady, and a gravedigger – as they hurried along… — Barbara Kyle Copy Share Image
“The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Her entire life, she’d been told sin was wrong, a black and white interpretation of what is evil and what is holy… — Madi Merek Copy Share Image
“I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“You won’t escape me. In a submarine, even escape sinks.” — Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell Copy Share Image
“I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.” — Susan Carroll Copy Share Image
“But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist." (Voltaire)” — Elizabeth Kales Copy Share Image
“Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“I hope to God there are no wars for him or anyone to fight in after this one.” — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“And what does war even accomplish? How does one country win over another by simply killing its people? None of it makes… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ! - Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRIST As… — Earl Devere Copy Share Image
“It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.” — R.A. McCandless Copy Share Image
“You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
