Historical Novels Quotes
Historical Novels Quote of the day
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.
