Books Quote by Kurt Busiek

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

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

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

— Joseph Boyden

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

— Diane Ackerman

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

— Jon Weisman

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“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

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at…

— Edward Rutherfurd