Historical Fiction Quotes
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Historical Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
— Philippa Gregory
Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.
— Stephanie M. Sellers
Dare I say anything now?
— Catherine Crumber
Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.
— Samuel Snoek-Brown
What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?
— Anne Rouen
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
— Anthony Doerr
It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.
— James Jones
If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.
— David Housholder
Ah, does my princess now want what I offer?
— Sai Marie Johnson
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
— Anita Diament
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
— Meghan Masterson
Some day ... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
— James Jones
The human heartIs unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always. — Rumer Godden
I like writing historical fiction.
— Philippa Gregory
From my Facebook Page: You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of
— Mary R. Woldering
Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
— Rajib Mukherjee
Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.
— James Jones
Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?
— Anne Rouen
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury — T.K. Thorne
Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement. - Lord Nash
— Liz Carlyle
Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something.""You have lost your mind."
"Say something less insulting. — Laura Andersen
I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live
— Christina Baker Kline
It is easier to start a war than to end it.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
— Sarah Sundin
I could not give her my heart, because it already belonged to another; for I have only loved once.
— Anne Rouen
Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
— Lauren Willig
Jealousy is nothing but a fear of being abandoned
— Heidi Heilig
I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.
— K. Webster
Plastic flowers last for hours
— Bill Fairclough
Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.
— Peggy Ullman Bell
Some of the braver say I am mad.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.
— Hilary Mantel
You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man.
— Liliana Shelbrook
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
— Philippa Gregory
I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio
— Nancy B. Brewer
The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been.
— Luo Guanzhong
I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control ...
— Leila Meacham
You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be ... [he kisses her] ... MINE ...
— Neil Jordan
He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well.
— Orna Ross
It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.
— Rhonda Fink-Whitman
A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.
— Robert Stephen Parry
I decided to write the book I wanted to read
— David A. Lottes
I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
— Gale Anne Hurd
You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.
— Samuel Snoek-Brown
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
— Parke Godwin
All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.
— Lance Morcan
God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.
— Jody Hedlund
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
— Philippa Gregory
All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
— Philippa Gregory
It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ...
— Robert Harris
Through enjoyment we endure.
— Florence Ditlow
I understand, gentlemen," John Kennedy said. "If you find that life it's not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.
— Pierre Marshesso
Next time we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon
I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
— Lauren Willig
And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.
— David Housholder
I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.
— Andrea Zuvich
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
— Karin Slaughter
I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.
— Kellyn Roth
Sheftu," she whispered, "it's all over.""Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Holding onto failed dreams only makes you bitter.
— Joseph C. Sciarillo
War is a terrible, bloody thing.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
Even if you break the bird's wings, you cannot change its spirit and heart,"-- Lilette (The Sign of Change)
— H. El-Tahwagi
War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.
— Samuel Snoek-Brown
Think ere you speak
— Valerie Tripp
I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.
— Steven B. Weissman
I just love historical fiction.
— Jennifer Donnelly
Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
— Sara Sheridan
It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it.
— Anne Rouen
Books are an extension of our imagination
— Danny Saunders
All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...
— John Julius Norwich
Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love ... that will free me from this love ...
— Neil Jordan
The sun had just slipped behind the trees and evening cast its dark, smoky shadow.
— Nancy B. Brewer
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
A warrior becomes experienced by being defeated; a scholar by making mistakes. Defeat and mistakes we have left in the past, he said.
— Elaine Marolakos Edelson
And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood
— J. Tyson-Capper
True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses. — Ana Claudia Antunes
