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I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.
I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.
The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .
[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
I want to bring forth the historical significance of Sreerampur and turn it into a tourism hub.
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.
Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system