Historical Novels Quotations
Historical Novels Quotes from:
- Hilary Mantel
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Nicholas Meyer
- Caroline B Cooney
- Chang Rae Lee
- Elie Wiesel
- George R R Martin
- George Santayana
- Jami Attenberg
- Jeanette Winterson
- Lauren Willig
- Louis Lamour
- Martha Grimes
- Matthew Tobin Anderson
- Peter Carey
- Raymond E Feist
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Reality Quotes
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.
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Hands Quotes
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'