Bits Quote by Frank Moore Cross

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians accepted it…

— Saul Bellow

“I want us to have history, something longer than the small window of time we're actually sharing...”

— Adam Silvera

“History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“I, on the other hand, am walking through a larch wood and every step I take is history. I think 'I love you, Adriana'…

— Italo Calvino

“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”

— Susan Meissner

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental…

— Anonymous

“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past, I'm in…

— Deborah Harkness

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing…

— Owen Barfield

I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and…

— Virginia Henley

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt