Areas Quote by Hershel Shanks

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

— Philippa Gregory

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

— Guy Davenport

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice…

— Philippa Gregory

My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing…

— Christian Karlson Stead

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for…

— Rick Perlstein

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation…

— Oliver Stone

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

— Princess Michael of Kent

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick