About Quote by A. S. Byatt

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with…

— Parker J. Palmer

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

— Peter Morgan

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…

— Saul David

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when…

— Emily Barton

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a…

— Edmund White

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to…

— Amy Waldman

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world -…

— Sara Sheridan

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric,…

— Camilla Gibb