Historical Fiction Mystery Quotes

#1. History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

Edward M. Lerner

#2. Ghosts!" gasped Alice. "Real, live ghosts?"

"No! Not 'real, live ghosts!' Spooky, dead ghosts!

Kellyn Roth

#3. There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

Tana French

#5. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

#6. As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air.

Nancy B. Brewer

#7. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman

Lauren B. Grossman

#8. It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

Carol K. Carr

#9. Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.

Nancy B. Brewer

#10. It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

Lauren Willig

#11. Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference.

Chang-rae Lee

#12. How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

C.J. Sansom

#13. What had these people done to deserve a band of desperate rebels turning up on their doorsteps, and now more trouble!

Yet, what had any of them done, what gods had they displeased to deserve the calamity that was the Romans?

Margaret McGoverne

#14. True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#15. Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.
'Of course,' he says.

Beatrice Hitchman

#16. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

Nancy B. Brewer

#17. I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio

Nancy B. Brewer

#18. If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah's flood.

Kellyn Roth

#19. I reckon it's true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.

Lisa Kaye Presley

#20. LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Lauren Willig

#21. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.

Gwenn Wright

#22. I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

Jean M. Auel

#23. I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.

Robert Stephen Parry

#24. I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.

Nike N. Chillemi

#25. Hello Readers! I look forward to adding to my author page. I

Rita Gard Seedorf

#26. I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

Lauren Willig

#27. I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction!

Wilkie Collins

#28. Life is volatile.

Robert J. Pajer

#29. William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound.

Umberto Eco

#30. What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?

Suzanne Rindell

#31. Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

Susanna Kearsley

#32. Every great day has a story and a song!

Faith Reese Martin

#33. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !

Rajib Mukherjee

#34. She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray

Shelley Gray