I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.
One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.