Alive Quote by Jonathan Dee

Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the…

— Amanda Foreman

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music,…

— Irvine Welsh

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world -…

— Sara Sheridan

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

— Laila Lalami

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what…

— Sarah Dessen

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

— Anita Shreve

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody…

— Erik Larson

I like writing historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

— William Landay