Ancient Quote by Shirley Jackson

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave…

— Mark Millar

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just…

— Michelle Moran

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly…

— Michael Palmer

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but…

— Ken Follett

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline…

— Chelsea Martin

“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

— David Mitchell

“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at…

— Yanis Varoufakis

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such…

— Theodore Bikel

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as…

— Stephen King

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

— Tom Stoppard