An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.