The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor 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
“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
“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
“If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá , zjímáme skřivani.” — Czech proverb 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
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known… — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“He wondered where the difference was between the good guys and the bad guys if their means were all just born out… — Osiris Brackhaus Copy Share Image
“Not many have escaped Merthyr, Mam. Not many want to leave in any case. At least there is work in this valley,… — Lynette Rees Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
“It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked… — Laura Andersen Copy Share Image
“To Jana's mind everybody seemed happy to see BAbichka and resisted returning her, like a misplaced package sent to the wrong address.… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“He found Granny on the porch, asleep. Her chin sat on her chest, rising and falling with her breath. He gathered her… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we… — John Bowen Copy Share Image
“I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up"- then Alex looked… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?' Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. 'As much as I enjoy giving… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“Jess Pepper's review of the Avalon Strings: 'In a land so very civilized and modern as ours, it is unpopular to suggest… — Bailey Bristol Copy Share Image
“He watched the newly arrived commuters as they stepped into the carriage, pushed their way down the tube, the odours from their… — Amanda Sington-Williams 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
“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
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
“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
“But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell 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
“I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.” — Susan Carroll Copy Share Image
“The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“You’re a lady. It’s written all over you, but the West doesn’t forgive any woman-unless she’s got a man.” — Liliana Shelbrook Copy Share Image
“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?” — Erica Sehyun Song 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
