Been Quote by Anita Shreve Download Open image “The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.” — Anita Shreve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Been History Life My life Novelist Pull Strong Theme
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it… — Daniel Aaron Copy Share Image
History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance,… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from… — Barbara Quick Copy Share Image
History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a… — Saul David Copy Share Image
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.” — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“She felt with the shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be. She was an idea, a memory, one perfect… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
