#tori

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#coming #death #end #freedom #haunt

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower) a play on words from, Beyond Sandy Rdige- www.nancybbrewer.com ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-fiction #romance-novel #historical-romance

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid and the trail has its own stern code. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#historical-fiction

He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#humor #historical-fiction

The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man... ↗

— Kelly O'Connor McNees

#historical-fiction

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe. ↗

— Aaron A.A. Smith

#civil-war #fantasy-fiction #gothic-fiction #historical #historical-fiction

Enjoy the ride! ↗

— Emery Lee

#historical-romance #historical-fiction

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time. ↗