Alternative-history Quote by Nancy Omeara

“According to her, if he hasn't been dead twenty years, he isn't history.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life”

— Napoleon Hill

“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

— Jose Rizal

“History is also a hard taskmaster, for she covers her paths by erasing so much evidence from her records—”

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I'd prefer her story than history.”

— Toba Beta

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and…

— Alice Dalgliesh

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and…

— Virginia Woolf

“our finite time in life does not allow us to really go back. The biographies and autobiographies, based on the exploration and interpretation of…

— Gar Lasalle

“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate…

— Elizabeth Gilbert