Damn Quote by Jon Turteltaub

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what…

— Sarah Dessen

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

— Andrzej Duda

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of…

— Nancy Horan

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

— Ernest Hemingway

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

— Antonia Fraser

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at…

— Edward Rutherfurd

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

— David Herbert Donald

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