#historical

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. ↗

— Ken Follett

#characters #create #events #feel #happen

I love historical romance, absolutely love it. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#historical #i #i love #love #romance

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#historian #historical #i #overview #period

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#explosive #happened #historical #history #i

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#client #consumer #development #historical #into

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this could not be true, but in the swirling fog of this hellish city she almost believed it. The creatures seemed to stare at her down their warped noses from their blank and hollow eyes. And overlord of all was the winged lion - he was everywhere, watching from every plaque or pennant, ubiquitous and threatening. ↗

— Marina Fiorato

#bubonic-plague #historical-romance-fiction #medical-history #venice #architecture

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#church #conditioned #convenient #form #himself

Historically, when we have better clocks, we have better navigation. ↗

— David J. Wineland

#clocks #historically #navigation

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. ↗

— Ruta Sepetys

#romance #men

But you see, Crumb, it is hard to give up what you have worked at since you were a boy. There were some Italian visitors once, they were cheering us on, Brandon and myself, and they thought that Achilles and Hector had come back to life. So they said.' But which is which? One dragged through the dust by the other ... The king says, 'You turn your boy out beautifully. No nobleman could do more.' 'I don't want him to be Achilles,' he says, 'I only want him not to be flattened. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#beauty