Caricature Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

— Diane Ackerman

History is filled with fictional people.

— Anonymous

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

— Helen Cam

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

— Kedar Joshi

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

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

— Alix Kates Shulman

“History is fiction.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Susan Sontag

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is…

— Jamaica Kincaid