The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

- Daisaku Ikeda

I like mythology - anything historical.

- Cassie Steele

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

- Colum McCann

If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

- Colm Meaney

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

- Caroline B. Cooney

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

- C. L. R. James

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

- Barbara Cartland

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

- Bahman Ghobadi

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

- Brian Ferneyhough

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

- Andy Goldsworthy

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

- Brian Eno

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

- Alvaro Enrigue

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

- Antony Beevor

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

- Antonia Fraser

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

- Antonia Fraser

God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

- August Wilson

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

- Alan Furst

I invented the historical spy novel.

- Alan Furst