Backgrounds Quote by Walt Whitman

The real war will never get in the books.

— Walt Whitman

Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically…

— Nicholas Sparks

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

— George R. R. Martin

“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

— Bobby Riggs

'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that…

— D. B. Weiss

I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker…

— Sam Houston

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from that time…

— George Saunders

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the…

— Josh Radnor

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

— Jefferson Davis