top of page
More

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Author Name
Personal Development

"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
Author Name
Personal Development

"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
Author Name
Personal Development

"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
Author Name
Personal Development

"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
Author Name
Personal Development

"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read."
Now

"Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries."
History

"Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing."
Writing

"Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness."
Goal

"I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time."
Time

"Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?"
Philosophy

"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
Events
bottom of page