Brutality Quote by Helmut Kohl

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

— Katherine Langford

“He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.”

— Gish Jen

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

— Lucius Accius

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved…

— Nicolas Roeg

History is sympathetic to its authors.

— John McAfee

Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.

— Chris de Burgh

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“So strange don't you think? To ascend to such a high position in your lifetime and then be totally forgotten? I mean, who even…

— Adam Sternbergh

“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it…

— Daniel Aaron

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.”

— Sarah Dessen

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

— Ben Bradlee

One of the people I most admired was Christopher Hitchens. He was extremely polarizing but extremely honest, to a fault sometimes, but I respected…

— Matthew Hussey