Art Quote by Joseph Conrad

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust…

— Tom Paulin

“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian…

— Halldor Laxness

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is…

— Claire Tomalin

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

— Robert Black

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

— Anonymous

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and…

— Peter Ackroyd

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I…

— Kevin Young

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

— Henry David Thoreau

As an historical novelist – there are few jobs more retrospective.

— Sara Sheridan