Education Quote by Candace Camp

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I…

— Pat Barker

I like writing historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

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

— Anthony Doerr

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought…

— Anita Brookner

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write. I just…

— Stephenie Meyer

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice…

— Philippa Gregory