Historical Quote by Lucia Puenzo

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is…

— George Santayana

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding,…

— Geraldine Brooks

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core,…

— Jami Attenberg

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

— Joseph Boyden

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

— Heather Mac Donald

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley

My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans have been…

— Yuval Noah Harari