Historical Quotes

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Rick Perlstein

MemoryComputersHistoricalDoes

Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and preserve his historical legacy.

Noah Feldman

LegacyPresidentSeeViceHistorical

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Marie Curie

ScienceThroughHistoricalSense

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Li Peng

ConflictLegacyMoreHistoricalHalf

There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record.

Kerry James Marshall

BlackHistoricalRecordFewer

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

Howard Hodgkin

WorkArtSeeHistoricalReally

I love historical references.

Giles Deacon

LoveHistoricalReferencesI Love

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

Erin Duffy

GoodFunBookFictionHistorical

I did not intend for there to be an incisive historical lesson in 'North and South.' Basically, it's just a good, juicy story.

David L. Wolper

GoodStoryLessonHistoricalJust

If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.

Bill Haslam

GodBookBibleBelieveHistorical

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing.

Virginia Henley

MeBookYearWriteHistoricalKnew

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

Saul David

HistoryReadingTrueWayHistorical

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Niall Ferguson

RiseHistoricalHalfWestMillennium

I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.

James A. Michener

WorldKnowOperaHistoricalGoing

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.

Carol Berg

GreatLensEventsWriteHistorical

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

Eleanor Catton

GoldMysteryNewHistoricalZealand

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

Warren Christopher

CountryImportantQuestionHistorical

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

Patrick deWitt

WriteHistoricalInstinctSetting

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

Andrew Luck

PatriotBattlesFictionHistorical

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Jack Horner

ScienceDustHistoricalLeftBeing

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

StoryFeelYouKnowHardHistorical

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

Iris Apfel

PeopleYouHouseWhiteHistorical

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Michael Ignatieff

DayWarPointHistoricalHappened

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

Gale Anne Hurd

FictionHistoricalFanNon-Fiction

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