As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
“Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?” — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Horeb bent over me and ran his hand down my neck, not stopping when his fingers reached my chest. I jerked backward.… — Kimberley Griffiths Little Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Juventus is an historical club, and many great players have played there. — Gonzalo Higuain Copy Share Image