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I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

— John Lydon

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject…

— Rick Wakeman

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

— Philip Yancey

I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has…

— Glenn Close

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 an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

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

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman

I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character,…

— Kate Leth

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only…

— Christopher Bram

I am trying to reach people who would not normally head for the history section of a book shop or a library to try…

— Princess Michael of Kent