Approach Quote by John Landgraf

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful…

— Vincent Piazza

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

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader…

— Louis L'Amour

“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only…

— Christopher Bram

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period…

— Amy Harmon

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it…

— Michel de Montaigne

The approach of 'Game of Thrones' is similar to 'The Lord of the Rings' in that it treats its source material almost like history,…

— Elijah Wood

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

— A. J. P. Taylor

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history…

— Sarah Vowell

“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived mainly from…

— Richard J. Evans