Historical Fiction Quotes
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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 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.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
Stay with me?” His fingers wound into my hair, and his arm tightened around me. “Always.
I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don't deserve the credit. This is just nature, a side effect of mortality - H
Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.
Perhaps Zeus was king, but I was Spartan, a princess twice over, and queen of Athens besides. I knew my duty. And I would rule my own fate.
You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.
A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.
A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.
Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.
I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.
That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.
Birkenau simmered in the July sun like some hideous brew, a witch's potion of blood, sweat, smoke, and excrement worthy of something the weird sisters might have cooked up in Macbeth.
Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.
Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.
No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.
I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.
For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become." -Steve Jobs
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course, ' he says.
The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Berlin Boxing Club
Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.
Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.
Adele, if you think that, no matter how mad you drive me, that I want to give you up, you are insane, possibly more insane than is healthy.
In time of war, it is not enough to say, ‘I am a citizen and I have rights.’ One must also say, ‘I am a citizen and I have obligations.
The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.
I want you forever. I will always be with you. I will always love you. I will love, honor, and cherish you for all eternity.
(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)
I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live
He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--
Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!
No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.
