Did Quote by Michael Korda

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

— Edmond de Goncourt

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

— E. L. Doctorow

“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act…

— Diane Ravitch

“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it…

— Aubrey Menen

“Mistakes in a work of fiction by a writer are new discoveries by the reader, that create a new ending for the story.”

— kambiz mostofizadeh

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and…

— Peter Morgan

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta

The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth:…

— Shelby Foote

“Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.”

— Gregg Frazer

“It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of…

— Geraldine Brooks

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

— Michael J. Lansing

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis