Historical Novels Quotes - Page 2

• There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

  Peter Straub

  Travel, Book, Adventure

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• Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

  Laila Lalami

  Past, Complexity, Particular

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• Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Book, Writing, Eight

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• The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

  Jose Emilio Pacheco

  Origin Of Life, Privatization, Private Life

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• I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Stories, Wells, Feels

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• It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Captivity, Pages

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• You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Writing, Trying

  "Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin: Blood of Bayonne". Interview with Joanna Buffum and Dylan Runco, njmonthly.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

  Hari Kunzru

  Thinking, Way, Merit

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• [My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Feet, Eight, Hands

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• I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Character, Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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