History Quote by Daisaku Ikeda

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“History is fiction.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.”

— Judith Geary

“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done…

— Hermann Hesse

“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.”

— Philippa Gregory

“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”

— Susan Meissner

“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”

— Vernor Vinge

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history books, go…

— Chenjerai Hove

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda