“Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.” — Maureen Jennings Copy Share Image
“If people don't do their part to stop the spread of evil when they're asked to, it just gets stronger and then… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.” — Sandi Layne Copy Share Image
“Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!” — Sai Marie Johnson 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
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
“Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold… — Sarah Sundin Copy Share Image
“How can we fight a whole people that just keeps on melting away before us but is always in the background awaiting… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“Denial is like a glass wall, easy to see beyond, but impossible to walk through.” — The Doctor’s Daughter: Totally heartbreaking and… — Shari J. Ryan Copy Share Image
Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The stars twinkled high above and reflected onto the cold window. I blew on the frosty glass and watched my breath fog… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and… — Samuel Snoek-Brown 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
“Hanna reached for Margaret's hand, knowing nothing she could say would bring comfort. Margaret would never see her grandmother again. Nor would… — Meredith Jaeger Copy Share Image
“And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadness and… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Snow crunched under the feet of three cloaked figures – a queen, her lady, and a gravedigger – as they hurried along… — Barbara Kyle Copy Share Image
“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Her entire life, she’d been told sin was wrong, a black and white interpretation of what is evil and what is holy… — Madi Merek Copy Share Image
“The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped… — Nancy B. Brewer 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
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell 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
“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
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson 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 the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá , zjímáme skřivani.” — Czech proverb Copy Share Image
“I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.” — Lauren Nicolle Taylor Copy Share Image
“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.” — Martin Herman 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
