Agatha-christie Quote by Sara Sheridan

“I love reading (and writing) historical fiction.”

— Barbara Carney-Coston

“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello!…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples. Death on…

— Amor Towles

“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

“My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...”

— Adriana Trigiani

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“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

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

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from…

— Barbara Quick

“I like fiction and the history...Great!”

— Anonymous

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

— Amit Chaudhuri