I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love. — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann Copy Share Image
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes 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
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere… — Colin Firth 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
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history. — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past. — Sophie Rundle Copy Share Image
... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes. — Otto E. Neugebauer Copy Share Image
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States. — John E. Rankin Copy Share Image
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
