Book Quote by Frederick Busch

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a…

— Don DeLillo

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

With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the…

— Debra Dean

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn…

— Cynthia Ozick

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that…

— David Brin

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

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

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

— Alix Kates Shulman

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of…

— John Dos Passos

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

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks