The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
Copy QuoteI only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Copy Quote View & ShareThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Copy Quote View & ShareImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Copy Quote View & ShareImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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