“He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don't… — Katie Hamstead Copy Share Image
“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of Venice. However, it wasn’t a city alive with stars dripping like liquid gold into canals, or Bougainvillea spilling from… — Pamela Allegretto Copy Share Image
“The boys lived in their own simple, carefree world, unconcerned with hygiene and unaware of the theory of evolution. Yet ruthless natural… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wise have the mental agility to anticipate and adjust to dire circumstances faster than most.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Megan’s deception is another hook on which I can hang my conscience.” — Jenny Lloyd 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
“Soeur Seraphina gently removed my lace fontanges. It was named for the King’s mistress Angelique de Fontanges, who had lost her hat… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters'… — Charles Phillips Copy Share Image
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
“(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“You’ll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to… — Samuel Snoek-Brown 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
“We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.” — Donald Riggio 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
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury” — T.K. Thorne Copy Share Image
“And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like… — John Edward Williams 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
“I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. For I… — Brenda Joyce Copy Share Image
“My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
