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“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it…

— Sean DeLauder

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

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

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

— David Bowie

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

“We scarcely dare to trust the truth of history, in some of its traits of human nature,” said Ellena.”

— Ann Radcliffe

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated…

— J.H. Wyman

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

— Susan Sontag

“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who have locked…

— R. N. Prasher

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes…

— Matt Groening

It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't…

— Nic Pizzolatto