Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Plummer

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The freedom of poetic license.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Jerzy Kosinski

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Orhan Pamuk

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

Steven Spielberg

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

David Ives

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Jim Phillips

We have lists of people ready to do lists of things,

A. S. Byatt

Lists are a form of power.

Dick Cavett

Meryl Streep belongs on anybodys list of greats.

Fred Baker

When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.

Mike Hargrove

We're putting together lists of names and are narrowing it down. It's important in our minds to do this quickly. But it's more important that we get the right guy.

Bret Easton Ellis

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

Connie Willis

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Jeff Cooley

There are short lists of two- or three-letter words that most people don't use. People probably haven't seen a lot of words that are key.