Historic Fiction Quotes

#1. I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

Charles Frazier

#2. The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

Heather Robinson

#3. It don't take long to stay all night here!

Charles Dahnmon Whitt

#4. My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

Regina King

#5. If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.

Kimberly Brouillette

#6. Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world.

Karl-Erik Sveiby

#7. I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.

Charles Stross

#8. She had always loved him, after all. And perhaps he knew it. Perhaps he saw more than she had suspected. And despite it, he did not look away.

Meredith Duran

#9. The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

Harold Prince

#10. The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

Takeda Nobushige

#11. I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

Elle Thornton

#12. I am constantly amazed by how little difference there is between religions.' Selene sighed. 'It seems the arguments are always over the details. Mary or Isis, Jesus or Horus. Maybe Hypatia is right and names don't matter, just the search for godliness in the life we live.

Faith L. Justice

#13. But marrying her would mean a whole lot more. He needed to be a spiritual leader for her,

Karen Kingsbury

#14. Some choices, once you make them, they stay made.

Sherri L. Smith