Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

Mots clés historical-fiction paris movies 1930s



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Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

Jerome Charyn

Mots clés historical-fiction emily-dickinson novel



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Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Louis L'Amour

Mots clés reading books history historical-fiction



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And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood

J. Tyson-Capper

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All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the head and some with the headless body. Let them look for each other on Judgment Day. Perhaps on that day, in the haste of it, the bodies of traitors will have to settle for heads other than their own. Some inevitable mismatching of villians and rogues will take place. And one fine bony fellow will spy his skull upon another's body. Then another. And then maybe we shall be witness to the brawl and battle of the bones...

George Garrett

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I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.

Nancy B. Brewer

Mots clés historical-fiction civil-war historical-romance



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Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.

Nancy B. Brewer

Mots clés historical-fiction civil-war historical-romance



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I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future

Nancy B. Brewer

Mots clés historical-fiction historical-romance-fiction



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You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

Jo Ann Butler

Mots clés historical-fiction biography natural-history



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