Ancient Quote by Oscar Wilde

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write…

— Henry David Thoreau

A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.

— Antony Beevor

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.”

— Philippa Gregory

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

— Helen Cam

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

“A life of fiction based on fact”

— Anonymous

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

— Peter Morgan

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

— Susan Sontag

Truth is always duller than fiction.

— Piers Paul Read

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

— Edmond de Goncourt