lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.” — Mona Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Maybe we both let our fears push each other away. But we don't have to do that anymore.” — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
“Cowan son of Branieucc, you're the only one of my people that I know for sure still lives.” — Sandi Layne Copy Share Image
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.” — Martin Herman Copy Share Image
“From my Facebook Page: "You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of” — Mary R. Woldering Copy Share Image
If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
“You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“After all her years in the Pietà, she had learned the greatest gift she could give them was dispensing words of encouragement… — Jennifer Wizbowski 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
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“She gently bit his bottom lip, his ear. Worked her way down his body until she reached the inside of his thigh,… — Dominique Wilson Copy Share Image
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving… — Jacqueline Winspear 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
“Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her… — Margaret Mitchell 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
“12/18/89 Calvin asks Hobbes if he'll help him write a book. Calvin says this book will be like historical fiction. He's writing… — Steve Kurtz Copy Share Image
“They rode for a while in silence, a tiny island in the smoky stream of marching men. Then Lee said slowly, in… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“He spent the next hours watching her sleep, taking in every detail of her face, of her body. The way the soft… — Dominique Wilson Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
“Over time, this unspoken attration continued to blossom, refusing to dwindle or fade, though they had little opportunity to foster or nourish… — Emery Lee Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“I hope to God there are no wars for him or anyone to fight in after this one.” — Mark Ellis 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
“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist." (Voltaire)” — Elizabeth Kales Copy Share Image
“Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ! - Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRIST As… — Earl Devere Copy Share Image
“I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.” — Susan Carroll Copy Share Image
“Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
“But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe 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
“You won’t escape me. In a submarine, even escape sinks.” — Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.” — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.” — Belinda Jack Copy Share Image
“Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.” — Dr. J. E. Cross Copy Share Image
