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I read more history books than anything else.

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

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.

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

While we read history we make history.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.