Account Quote by Erik Larson

I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start…

— Erik Larson

You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as…

— Raymond Chandler

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

“History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken”

— John Sladek

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“It's easy t write a history. All the eyewitnesses are dead. - Ljupka Cvrtanova”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

— Jon Turteltaub

“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.”

— J.G. McKenney

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

— Diane Ackerman

“The person unaware of history is like a rudderless boat just floating out in the middle of the ocean, hostages to the waves and…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in…

— E. M. Forster

The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign using this brand-new weapon. We have to appreciate how…

— Erik Larson