“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
“Maybe we both let our fears push each other away. But we don't have to do that anymore.” — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
“I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Cowan son of Branieucc, you're the only one of my people that I know for sure still lives.” — Sandi Layne Copy Share Image
lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.” — Mona Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).” — Danny Saunders Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“... those sectaries in Europe who are always expecting the end of the world, but who hope that, after the earth has… — Hilary Mantel 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
“Alana Marks had always known she was different. From her gypsy childhood, to the way she now made her living in the… — Barbara Kyle Copy Share Image
“Son of a beast tried to bite me when I turned my back to the billets!"... Nostrils flaring and ears pinned, the… — Emery Lee Copy Share Image
“She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Largely, now, it was not anger he felt, but rather a kind of bone-scraping, quiet, ever-present sorrow. To come to the place… — Elizabeth Graver Copy Share Image
“Benedick Scott was on his way to freedom or profound failure or, if the usual order of things held up, both. Two… — McKelle George Copy Share Image
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Their eyes locked. They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been born.” — Marion Croslydon Copy Share Image
“Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in a lifetime.” — Marti Melville Copy Share Image
“Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“9 November 1989. A day nobody would forget. She had heard rumours about the wall.” — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
“If I had two breaths left inme, one first one I would use to tell you I miss you, and the second… — Katarina Jovic Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...” — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.” — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
“The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?” — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...” — Kelly O'Connor McNees Copy Share Image
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