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

— Anthony Doerr

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric,…

— Camilla Gibb

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then…

— Robin Sloan

I don't like fiction, I like reading proper history.

— Tony Pulis

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted,…

— Sara Sheridan

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

— Prodigy

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

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

— Wendell Berry

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

I do not love fiction, I love history.

— Duane Hanson

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe