“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.” — C.B. Huesing Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.' — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
“By our warriors having a written German language, we can rob the Romans of the advantages that they currently hold over us.” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” Patricia Briggs.” — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas 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
“Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.” — Donna M. McDine Copy Share Image
“War does not only kill men. Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we… — Suzanne Anderson Copy Share Image
“I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“Holding the bread to her chest, she made her way home, thinking of those dreamy winter afternoons, when the light looked as… — Alexis Landau Copy Share Image
“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“...The queen's mocking laughter cut in. " This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?" "Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty… — Eloise Jarvis McGraw 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
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
“Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one… — Laura Morelli Copy Share Image
“If you felt sorry for every man you murdered, every life you broke in two, every slow and painful harvest you destroyed,… — Anonymous 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
“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
“The best thing to do is grieve for the people you loved & lost, and then welcome and love the new people… — Mark Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.” — Lise Arin 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
Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. — Madeline Miller 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
“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
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp 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
“Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.” — Maureen Jennings Copy Share Image
“It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.” — Bradley Steffens 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
“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
“Leave the gun, take the cannoli--Clemenza to Rocco in the Godfather (1972)” — Richard S Castellano Copy Share Image
“I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.” — Steven B. Weissman 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
