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I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.

I read more history books than anything else.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

It's a very good historical book about history.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.