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Historical Quotes
Words on a past that never fully stays behind.
These historical quotes include one artist's simple claim to be a historical painter, alongside thoughts on why historical fiction keeps readers returning to the same characters. See related lines under Fiction.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
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I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'
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After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
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Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
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My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
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I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
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