Day Quote by Nancy Horan

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

— Imre Kertész

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

— Katherine Langford

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world -…

— Sara Sheridan

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what…

— Sarah Dessen

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

— Hilary Mantel

“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.”

— Judith Geary

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

— Kate Atkinson

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

— Karin Slaughter

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

— Kurt Busiek