Both Quote by Katherine Paterson

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— Alex Flinn

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

I like writing historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I just love historical fiction.

— Jennifer Donnelly

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Philippa Gregory

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

— Karin Slaughter

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story…

— Isabel Allende

With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the…

— Debra Dean

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

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

— Joseph Boyden

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

— Wendell Berry