American history Quote by Neil Gaiman

“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for…

— Neil Gaiman

“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is…

— Neil Gaiman

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

— Connie Willis

History is filled with fictional people.

— Anonymous

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that…

— Raymond Queneau

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

— Robert Eggers

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“It happens that in our phase of civility, the novel is the central form of literary art. It lends itself to explanations borrowed from…

— Frank Kermode

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

— Tony Ardizzone

“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from…

— Neil Gaiman

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

— Antonia Fraser