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Historical Quotes

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Past Fiction In The Past Historical

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Daniel Barenboim

Political Historical Disease Origins

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Class Rising Historical Against

I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

Beautiful Value New Old Historical

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

Historical Myth Fact Literary Plato

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?

Man Situation Three Historical Made

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Christopher Lasch

Citizen Development Same Historical

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Arthur Erickson

Great Events Renaissance Historical

I like writing historical fiction.

Philippa Gregory

Writing Fiction Historical Like

Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Sharon Kay Penman

History True Possible Try Historical

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

Man Find Study Status Historical

I've found that readers of historical romances really like series because they get to revisit characters and find out what happens with them. I've done several series.

Find Done Out Historical Get Like

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

Martin Heidegger

History Within Historical Statement

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Linda Lael Miller

Love Writing Christmas Historical

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Love Romance Historical Absolutely

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Feeling Historical Sense Cannot

I like historical things; I like researching things.

Things Historical Like Researching

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

Perspective Strong You Historical

I don't normally do pure historical work.

Work Pure Historical Normally

I invented the historical spy novel.

Spy Historical Novel Invented

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Virginia Henley

Love History Ideas Historical Get

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Sandra Cisneros

Fantasy Always Fiction Historical

In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.

You Back Go Events Line Historical

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.

Work You Movies See Historical Ruin

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