Books Quote by Sara Sheridan

“The small details of life often hide a great significance.”

— Margaret Atwood

“To our Creator, a small detail is a big deal.”

— Todd Stocker

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“History is dead until we make it live; but it is the lively interpretation of history that makes it interesting.”

— Robert J. Devaux

“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

“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done…

— Hermann Hesse

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the…

— Colum McCann

“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls…

— Joshua Ferris

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

“History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical…

— Karl Marx

“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