Books Quote by Hannah Kent

I just love historical fiction.

— Jennifer Donnelly

Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do…

— Chang-Rae Lee

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on…

— Emma Donoghue

I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical…

— Danielle Dutton

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I love being educated by historical novels.

— Debra Stephenson

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel…

— Helen Dunmore

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's…

— Hari Kunzru

I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when…

— Danielle Dutton

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I like writing historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory