Events Quote by Andrew Lam Download Open image “In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .” — Andrew Lam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Fiction Historical Historical events History Non fiction Stay true True Historical
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. — Saul David Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived,… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image