About Quote by F. Sionil Jose

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a…

— Matthew Arnold

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

— Peter Morgan

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

— John Cusack

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived,…

— Alison Weir

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

— Edmond de Goncourt

“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian…

— Halldor Laxness

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

“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.”

— Federico Gamboa

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous

“What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective consciousness? If historical novels stir your interest, pursue the…

— Ruta Sepetys

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle