About Quote by Nancy Horan

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

— Ernest Hemingway

“But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel..…

— John Green

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

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

“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

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

— Joseph Boyden

With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the…

— Debra Dean

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on…

— Emma Donoghue

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

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki