Disappearing Quote by Andrew Haigh

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

— Julie Klassen

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

— Buzz Aldrin

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

— Garry Trudeau

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they…

— David Selby

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

— George R. R. Martin

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see…

— James Robertson

People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that such stories…

— Rajkummar Rao

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and…

— Peter Morgan

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of…

— Michel Faber

History is filled with fictional people.

— Anonymous

It was always about the story rather than the character.

— Jean Dujardin