Susan Holloway Scott Quotes

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

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

I like writing historical fiction.

I like the stories with the historical themes.

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.

I just love historical fiction.

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

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

I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.

I have never known a great deal about any of the historical figures I have written about until I actually started researching the book. If I knew a great deal about the person, I would not have been interested in writing the book.

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

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.

Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.

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.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.