Books Quote by Thomas E. Woods Jr

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures.…

— Elisabeth Lenk

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

— Max von Sydow

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to…

— Derek Jacobi

Everyone relates differently to contemporary stuff. They rely on you to do the research for a period film.

— Mark Bridges

“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.”

— Annie Dillard

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

— Oscar Wilde

“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through…

— Per Petterson

“Her friendships were as legendary as her stories and some of the best were with her fellow writers for during the teens, 1920s, and…

— Cari Beauchamp

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell