“ 'Are our gods better than Olaf's god?' Alfdis laughed. 'That's a silly question. Gods are gods. Our gods have been with… — James Erich Copy Share Image
“Joan knew then that Donna was not an idiot. And the Beatles were not nonsense. And that there had always been a… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction is a group of symptoms and not a disease,” so a medical student (failed) told me once. “It's like the… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“French Revolution- all them fellas the figgered her out got their heads chopped off. Always that way, jus as natural as rain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“Sinuhe, my friend, we have been born into strange times. Everything is melting – changing its shape – like clay on a… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one’s burden. As far… — Kathy-Diane Leveille Copy Share Image
“Reading and knowledge feed the soul, but a man still needs bread… and here I am, caught between both. Yonan -” — Hany Elframawy Copy Share Image
“I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Before I disappear behind the door, I stop and turn around to look at him.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” Patricia Briggs.” — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas Copy Share Image
“Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn” — Jo Ann Butler Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his… — Ian Weir Copy Share Image
“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be… — Osamu Tezuka Copy Share Image
“When you're writing historical fiction, you are always looking for the untold story. You're looking for what has been repressed politically, or… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“I took my friend’s hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
“Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The appearance of the mountain changes, according to when in the day you beheld it and which side you approached it from.… — Rehan Khan Copy Share Image
“Benedick Scott was on his way to freedom or profound failure or, if the usual order of things held up, both. Two… — McKelle George 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
“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
“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
“Medicine is a bit like love," Aunt Gertrude began. "There are the theatrical outer forms gone through by the players-the bandages and… — Melissa de la Cruz 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
“Stars flicker above, points of bright ice in a dark river. I pull a heavy sheepskin around my legs and stretch my… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“Real love isn't ambivalent. I'd swear that's a line from my favorite best-selling paperback novel, "In Love with the Night Mysterious", except… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
