Historical Fiction Quotes
Historical Fiction Quote of the day
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
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 as they would probably be astonished at ours.
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.
Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.
lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.
You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.