Happened Quote by Nicholson Baker

World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in which I…

— Mark Helprin

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of…

— Celine Buckens

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If…

— Bettany Hughes

With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have…

— Ken Follett

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything…

— Martha Gellhorn

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

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from…

— Thomas Mallon

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine…

— Ken Follett

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

— Samir Nasri

It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects…

— Rory McIlroy

I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane…

— Nicholson Baker

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at…

— Haruki Murakami