I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor. – Gary Jennings
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself. – James McBride
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. – Bahman Ghobadi
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. – Niall Ferguson
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. – Caroline B. Cooney
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. – Edward Sapir
The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that’s called Frenchtown on historical markers. – Daniel Woodrell
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. – Michael Ignatieff
Many of America’s historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn’t have many other options. – Jeremy Jackson
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. – Li Peng
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah’s reformation. – Julius Wellhausen
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. – Marie Curie
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. – Raymond Queneau
