Norman Spinrad Quotes

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

I read more history books than anything else.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

What I did do a lot as a child was read, and I particularly remember reading all the 'Hardy Boys' books, a set of history books called the 'Landmark Books,' and a series of science books called the 'All About Books.'

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them