Prodigy Quotes

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

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

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

I tend to read non-fiction.

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

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

There are not many academic disciplines that have their own section in a book store. History is one.

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

Fiction lags after truth.

The true historian … reveres the fact rather than any theory.

World history is the world's court.

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

The political biographies most popular in the modern era often tell us less about their subjects than about the moment in which the books themselves are published.

History is a dubious guide to current politics.

I read more history books than anything else.

I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

I enjoy reading books.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.