Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Most history books are about power.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
It is over with; I am in the history books.
Michael Moorer
I read more history books than anything else.
James McBride
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
Mickey Spillane
Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.
Honor Blackman
Catherine Keener is everyone's dream sister slash mom slash aunt.
Allison Williams
Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
Vladimir Putin
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
Vladimir Putin
In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.
Michael Connelly
You learn a lot, writing fiction.
Penelope Lively
I like going back and writing fiction.
Julia Sweeney
So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
Stephen Carter
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
Elizabeth Moon
I tend to read non-fiction.
Gary Oldman
I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.
Leila Aboulela
I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
Gale Anne Hurd
We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.
David Shields
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
Tertullian
The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
Moshe Dayan
Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.
Eli Yishai
I always wanted to write a history of Jerusalem.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
I'm full of curiosity.
Sienna Miller
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
People die when curiosity goes.
Graham Swift
I try to be led by my curiosity.
Lynn Nottage
The potential of your body is endless.
Thierry Mugler
I think that music has an endless life.
Anne Dudley
I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.
Justin Tranter
I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.
Shirley Knight
Drama starts where logic ends.
Ram Charan
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Marian Anderson
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
Tom Cruise
Texas is as odd as it is vast.
Henry Rollins
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
Anthony Hopkins
A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Rise above principle and do what's right.
Joseph Heller
I'm metrics-based.
Jamie S. Miller
My act is based on my life.
Kathy Griffin
Love is based on imagination.
Olivier Martinez
I'm big on research.
James L. Brooks
I'm a research queen.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I love doing research.
Tom Goodman-Hill
I really like research.
Miranda Otto
I love science fiction.
Moon Bloodgood
I hate science fiction.
James Dyson
I love science fiction.
Pam Grier
I read a lot of fiction.
Leila Aboulela
I love books.
Matthew Macfadyen
I love books.
Gail Porter
I love my books.
Elizabeth Edwards
Books always help.
Aung San Suu Kyi
I'm a history nut.
Billy Joel
History is history.
Troy Vincent
I'm part of history.
Alex Rodriguez
History's a resource.
Laura Linney
I love writing.
Bonnie Hunt
I enjoy writing.
Charles Cumming
Writing is hard.
Spike Jonze
Writing is not fun.
Rian Johnson
Tech never comes back the same.
Samuel J. Palmisano
We never do the same set twice.
David Bryan
Boys and girls are not the same.
Tucker Carlson
The world remains ever the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every lap is different.
Lewis Hamilton
It's a different world.
John Ashcroft
I like being different.
Brantley Gilbert
Every song is different.
Dimebag Darrell
God is great.
Sean Kingston
Pilates is great.
Orlando Bloom
Pop was great fun.
Delta Goodrem
I'm a great singer.
Mauricio Macri
I like to eat.
Chris Messina
I like to run.
Ann Marie Buerkle
I like my life.
Harry Connick, Jr.
I like to work.
Gary Coleman
I like people.
Jeff Bridges
Design is people.
Jane Jacobs
I trust the people.
William Hague
I look after people.
Amy Winehouse