Felt Quote by Guy Vanderhaeghe Download Open image “History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Felt Fiction Helping Historical Historical fiction History Imagine People
Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings. — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.” — Judith Geary Copy Share Image
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Embrace one another with courage. Search each other's hearts for hidden suffering and never flee what you discover! That's the ticket!” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated form what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“They teach us that in school, matters of principle. I swear it's a plot to get us all slaughtered the day they graduate us… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“News of the disaster at Little Bighorn reached the Eastern Seaboard shortly after July 4, and not just any ordinary July 4 but the… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image