Lynn Abbey Quotes

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

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

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

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

I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how people lived in the past and understanding it better.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

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.

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.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

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.

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.

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

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

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

I read more history books than anything else.

I am a great student and fan of history.

I would love to be an historian. I'm a bit of a history geek and love books and programmes on the subject.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

I never had the vaguest idea whether any of it had anything to do with me, especially being a sixth grader. When I got older and traveled, I'd read about the history of where I was going. I'd be like, "Oh, history is kind of interesting."