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historical-novels cloaks fluttering
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. Jeanette Winterson
historical-novels giving perspective
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. Mary Pope Osborne
historical-novels venture modern
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. Lion Feuchtwanger
historical-novels london spheres
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut. Martha Grimes
historical-novels stories wells
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. Matthew Tobin Anderson
historical-novels hands law
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.' Robert Anton Wilson
london forget sometimes
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else. Alan Rickman
london emptiness endless
London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness. China Mieville
london pavement rooms
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher. David Mitchell
london royal eric
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me. Carole King
london doe justified
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! Camille Pissarro
london moved teenage tower
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets. Maajid Nawaz
london amsterdam way
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things. Billy Gibbons
london wells objectives
The objective is to do things well in London. Dayron Robles
london grim-reaper motorbike
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. Benedict Cumberbatch
spheres remember artwork
Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work? Charles de Lint
spheres social existence
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times. David Harvey
spheres
Leave women to find their sphere. Lucy Stone
spheres enthusiasm honest
I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere. Orson Welles
spheres gypsy improvisation
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist. Franz Liszt
spheres ifs productive
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. Erich Fromm
spheres reason source
The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part. H. P. Lovecraft
spheres teach
We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. Oswald Chambers
spheres needs fantasy
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead. Michael Crichton