About Quote by Deborah Harkness

I am trying to reach people who would not normally head for the history section of a book shop or a library to try…

— Princess Michael of Kent

I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and…

— Natalie Dormer

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

— John Robbins

“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and…

— Sara Sheridan

“You should pay more attention to the caravan," the boy said to the Englishman, after the camel driver had left. "We make a lot…

— Paulo Coelho

I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a…

— Lucy Dacus

History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories…

— Nancy Horan

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

— Stephen Hawking

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their…

— Henry Ford

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

— Thomas Hood

With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they really said.…

— Michael Hirst

My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in…

— Maeve Binchy