Quotes About Historicals

#1. How could she have forgotten what this was like, to burn on a fuse before him?

Marie Rutkoski

#2. I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

Emma Donoghue

#3. With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters.

Heather Graham Pozzessere

#4. His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.

Loretta Chase

#5. Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

George Ade

#6. I'm a devout individual so I remain faithful to my church.

Jens Spahn

#7. I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the historicals, however, but if that's all I did I would go crazy, same with any of the other kinds of books. I need variety.

Joe R. Lansdale

#8. A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Edwin Louis Cole

#9. One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Sri Aurobindo

#11. Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Edward Abbey

#12. The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#13. Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

Mike Jackson

#14. American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them.

Landon Y. Jones

#15. I grew up in Seattle, where there isn't a lot of sun.

Josie Bissett

#16. The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

Allan Lichtman

#17. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

Tom Althouse

#18. Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Adolf Loos

#19. There are poems inside of you that paper can't handle.

YZ