“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.” — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
“Whereas before I had been an open, outgoing, and inquisitive child, suddenly, I was quiet—almost shy.” — Lin Wilder Copy Share Image
“Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.” — Donna Thorland Copy Share Image
“I looked evil in the eye and smiled at it with such power that I felt a little dizzy. Jade Gentry (Polishing… — Tekoa Manning 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
“When you're writing historical fiction, you are always looking for the untold story. You're looking for what has been repressed politically, or… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his… — Ian Weir Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“But you see, Crumb, it is hard to give up what you have worked at since you were a boy. There were… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“A brief whiff of her mother had come through a cracked window that opened to a weed-infested courtyard. It was a fragrance… — Victoria Dougherty Copy Share Image
“See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig… — Margaret Wrinkle Copy Share Image
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry. Marguerite d'Anjou and her son… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“The word began to filter down the lines, and the grumbling stopped, there was something new about this march, something these men… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“I believe every story that is made in the mind of an author; has a trace in real world.A historical fiction completely… — Hamid Karima Copy Share Image
“Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his… — Nancy B. Brewer 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
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
What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be… — Hilary Mantel 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
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — Philippa Gregory 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
“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
“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
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
“A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfar’s heart. It was the first she had heard of the sea farms lying in the path… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
“But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad,… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be… — Osamu Tezuka 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
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
