Books Quote by Ken Follett

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and…

— James D'arcy

I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.

— Kurt Sutter

I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you have other…

— Koren Zailckas

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present,…

— Eric Stoltz

While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while…

— Julie Klassen

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

— George R. R. Martin

If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will not imitate…

— Sarita Choudhury

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

— Andrea Hirata

“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do…

— Lauren Willig

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that…

— Jim McKay

Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do…

— Melanie Benjamin