Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.
A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
