Archives Quote by Sara Sheridan Download Open image ““Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”” — Sara Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Archives Fiction Historical Historical fiction History Material Writer Writing
“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective consciousness? If historical novels stir your interest, pursue the… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.” — Judith Geary Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it… — Daniel Aaron Copy Share Image
“History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.” — Ian Davies Copy Share Image
“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives… — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the last person… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers.… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and… — John Howe Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
