Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are… — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations,… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
In many regards, the West is dependent on Russia as a partner. Showing consideration for Russian sensitivities when it comes to old,… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image