#historical

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. ↗

— Diane Watson

#been #branch #groups #historically #judicial

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#being #community #covenant #first #god

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains

You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#historical-fiction

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#historical-fiction

Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder. ↗

— Peggy Ullman Bell

#historical-fiction

Through enjoyment we endure. ↗

— Florence Ditlow

#greatest-generation #historical-fiction #womens-history #wwll #historical-fiction

How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame. ↗

— Jenny Lloyd

#historical-fiction

Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the air, before dissolving into sunlight. ↗

— Kimberly Cutter

#christian-fiction #france #historical-fiction #history #medieval-history