Quotes About Historical

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.'

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

Fortunately or unfortunately, 'Baahubali' has become a benchmark for all historical-costume dramas.

The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.

I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany.

Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

It's such a great city, visually. You can't get that kind of look in Canada that you can get in Boston: the old-brick historical buildings, the winding streets, the old but funky neighborhoods like Southie and Somerville. You can't get that elsewhere. It's a very unique place in that way.

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

By the time Justinian died in 565, aged over eighty

Among them was Polybius, who would spend the next twenty years of his life there

Periodization based on religion as the sole criterion of historical activity is a negation of history.

Religious nationalism takes an extreme form in communal historical writing.