Fiction Quote by Jon Weisman

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

I do not love fiction, I love history.

— Duane Hanson

“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it…

— Daniel Aaron

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 history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

— Andrew Lam

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

— Joseph Boyden

“I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history books, go…

— Chenjerai Hove

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

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

— Susan Sontag

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

— Diane Ackerman