“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Tethered to the universe by tendrils of history, with threads of continuity descending to God knows where, I see that I'm more… — Carol Kenny Copy Share Image
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical… — Kathryn Lasky 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
“I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“I want you forever. I will always be with you. I will always love you. I will love, honor, and cherish you… — Katrina "Adrian" Miller Copy Share Image
“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really… — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
“Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
“And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain.… — J. Tyson-Capper Copy Share Image
“A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.” — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
“ 'All we can see is the surface. But there's so much more we can't see beneath. I bet it's as big… — Augusta Li Copy Share Image
“Isabel Valverde was coming home. The brief, terrible letter from her brother had brought her across five thousand miles of ocean, from… — Barbara Kyle 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
“I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.” — Donna M. McDine Copy Share Image
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray,… — Gary Inbinder Copy Share Image
