Augustus Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

— Peter Greenaway

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

There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius…

— Robert Gottlieb

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at…

— Franz Grillparzer

“A thousand years from now" Leonidas declared, "two thousand, three thousand years hence, men a hundred generations yet unborn may, for their private purposes,…

— Steven Pressfield

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will…

— Patrick O'Brian

“And what thoughts or memories, would you guess, were passing through my mind on this extraordinary occasion? Was I thinking of the Sibyl's prophecy,…

— Robert Graves

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on…

— Emma Donoghue

“What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective consciousness? If historical novels stir your interest, pursue the…

— Ruta Sepetys

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

— Oscar Wilde

“His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians accepted it…

— Saul Bellow