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 contempor…

- Lion Feuchtwanger

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

- Lion Feuchtwanger

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

- Lion Feuchtwanger

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.

- Lion Feuchtwanger

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

- Lion Feuchtwanger

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit…

- Lion Feuchtwanger

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

- Lion Feuchtwanger

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…

- Lion Feuchtwanger

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vas…

- Lion Feuchtwanger