Books Quote by Jean Fritz

As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non…

— Dan Brown

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject…

— Rick Wakeman

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell,…

— Henry Cavill

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for…

— Rick Perlstein

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history,…

— Norman Spinrad

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David