About Quote by Alison Weir

If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it's perfectly legitimate to play with known historical characters and events,…

— Diana Gabaldon

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world that readers…

— Justin Cartwright

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

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts.…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

— Helen Cam

We really should stop taking historical novelists seriously as historians. The idea that they have authority is ludicrous. They are very good at imagining…

— David Starkey

“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it…

— Daniel Aaron

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from…

— Thomas Mallon