I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Son of a beast tried to bite me when I turned my back to the billets!"... Nostrils flaring and ears pinned, the… — Emery Lee Copy Share Image
“It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known… — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“Stuff and nonsense: you must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided… — Adam Yamey Copy Share Image
“All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him.… — George Garrett Copy Share Image
“The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“... those sectaries in Europe who are always expecting the end of the world, but who hope that, after the earth has… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Nicholas met with him earlier about some lumber deal and sent him here for lunch. He's evidently new in town and was… — Melissa Jagears Copy Share Image
“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Hemingway’s been a reporter long enough to know that when you meet resistance from the people in authority it’s better not to… — Marianne K. Miller Copy Share Image
“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
“Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped; so did the box of suds. It… — Huston Piner Copy Share Image
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder which is worse: "To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all… — Jason E. Royle Copy Share Image
