Historical Fiction Novel Quotes

#1. You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of the leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

Alfred Bester

#2. The virtuous are among the the weakest and quickest to sin

Aziz Hamza

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

Kellyn Roth

#5. There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.

Kimberly Jo Smith

#6. Do you plan on marrying Charles?"
She shook her head.
"Good. I wouldn't want to shoot him, but I would."
... Finding Promise

Scarlett Dunn

#7. I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

Irvin D. Yalom

#8. when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail

Aziz Hamza

#9. My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

George Santayana

#10. For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research.

Andrew Sean Greer

#11. If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it

Aziz Hamza

#12. Books are an extension of our imagination

Danny Saunders

#13. It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was the song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of strength.

Ayn Rand

#14. Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

Naomi Wood

#15. Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending ... you're still enthralled.
(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Hilary Mantel

#16. In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).

Danny Saunders

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

Kellyn Roth

#18. 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

#19. Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there's a payment of time or money or soul!

Kellyn Roth

#20. (The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

Nancy B. Brewer

#21. If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.

Lise Arin

#22. I brought you something. It's my sister's coat. It
gets cold in Nashville in the wintertime.

Nancy B. Brewer

#23. For some reason, notwithstanding the alienation and utter rejection, I consider myself a global citizen. They say misery calls for company and I've always been a man of funerals. The companion of the misfortunate, until they are not!

Asaad Almohammad

#24. Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

Jerome Charyn

#25. I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

Lisa M. Prysock

#26. Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

Rachelle Rea Cobb

#27. Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete with details, like a big fat colorful nineteenth-century historical novel, inching forward slowly ... Ida's narrative line, like her waistline, was ample.

Marissa Piesman

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Rita Gard Seedorf

#29. 'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.

Pamela Sargent

#30. Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses

Aziz Hamza

#31. Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.

Kellyn Roth

#32. Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

David Hopper

#33. History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.

Aziz Hamza