Balance Quote by Don DeLillo

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history…

— Frederick Busch

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while…

— Julie Klassen

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being…

— Dani Shapiro

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

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

— Emily Barton

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

— Lauren Groff