Historical Novel Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not… — Leah Hager Cohen
• The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an… — Jose Emilio Pacheco
• I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a… — Hari Kunzru
• You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of… — George R. R. Martin
• It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel
• Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I… — Lauren Willig
• If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about… — Louis L'Amour
• In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not… — Alison Weir
• Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and… — Sharon Kay Penman

Who Wrote These Historical Novel Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Historical Novel Quotes as follows:

• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Leah Hager Cohen
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Jose Emilio Pacheco
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by George R. R. Martin
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Elie Wiesel
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Lauren Willig
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Alison Weir
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Sharon Kay Penman
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Hari Kunzru
• 1 Historical Novel Quote by Louis L'Amour