Historical Novels Quotes
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Historical Novels Quotes & Sayings
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I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe."
"It's called true love. Most people never find it. — Destin Bays
"It's called true love. Most people never find it. — Destin Bays
Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else.
— Margie Bayer
To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.
— Pope Francis
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
— Kara Walker
Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.
'Of course,' he says. — Beatrice Hitchman
'Of course,' he says. — Beatrice Hitchman
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
— Lauren Willig
If it's only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody.
— Jina Bacarr
Call it what you like, my lady, but it is still spying.
— Jessie Clever
It was awful, this love.
— Eloisa James
I want to be your lover. Burn your list, Jane. Let me be the one.
— Tina Gabrielle
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Does the work yield insights? Did it challenge me to think? Does it suggest a different view of the world? Do I know something I didn't know before?
— Gareth Cook
Heart...Soul...Words
— Leslie Hachtel
I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction
— Tina Gabrielle
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.
— Mary Pope Osborne
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
— Charles Lindbergh
You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.
— Cornelius Van Til
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
— Karl Liebknecht
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
— Raymond E. Feist
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
— Alison Krauss
The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
— Albert Brooks
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
— Jeanette Winterson
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
— Laila Lalami
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
— Nathanael West
There is a universality to comedy.
— Simon Pegg
I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.
— Nicole Luiken
Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!
— Katherine Givens
Love should never be a game.
— Sherry D. Ficklin
Where are the eggs of monsters most likely laid? What nest incubates them until they hatch? What are the toxic scraps that nourish them to adulthood?
— James Patterson
That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.
— Edward St. Aubyn
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
— Gary Jennings
She loved historical novels in which women dressed as men and outgrew their limited opportunities. And
— Nina George