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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder. — Ernest Hemingway,

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings. — Helen Cam

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer ... from a thousand questions? — G.F. Smith

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind. — Philip Zaleski

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. — Mason Cooley

Rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding

Truth is produced, not discovered, and is a property not of the world but of statements. — Lee Patterson

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. — Howard Mumford Jones

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices. — Louise Bernikow

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is. — Philip Roth

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. — A.E. Samaan

The story we write today will support the next generation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress. — C.S. Lewis

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. — Samuel Johnson

What do you mean to do?'
'Make literary history, I guess. — Paula McLain