Aspect Quote by Alix Kates Shulman Download Open image “Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.” — Alix Kates Shulman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aspect Creating Emotional Fiction History Important
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then… — Robin Sloan 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
“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.” — Judith Geary Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric,… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
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 I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.” — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
