Susan Barker Quotes

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 writing historical fiction.

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

I read more history books than anything else.

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

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

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.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

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

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

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

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

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.

I read a lot of history for fun.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

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

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

While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A story will interest me, and then somewhere along the way, I discover that hidden inside are these epic themes.

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.