I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.
Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors
Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.
Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.
I didn't grow up on comics, and I read very few.
I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
I've just finished a book called 'The Time Traveler's Wife', which I really enjoyed, but that's quite old, but I have read it. I've read it, and I enjoyed that.
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
