Game of thrones Quote by George RR Martin

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.”

— Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed

“The cover, title, the name of the author, how the work starts, the name of characters all this is important information which should be…

— Deyth Banger

“Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could…

— George R.R. Martin

“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

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely…

— Julian Barnes

“The historian will tell you what happened, the novelist will tell you what it felt like.” E.L. Doctorow”

— Anonymous

“Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history”

— Owl City

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by…

— Virginia Woolf

“History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble…

— Alastair Reynolds