Books Quote by Paul Rushworth-Brown

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

— Ian Mcewan

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

— Emily Barton

“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

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

— Anonymous

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane…

— L.A. Dale

As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at…

— Meg Wolitzer

“I believe that a writer should never attempt a contemporary theme or a very precise topography. Otherwise people are immediately going to find mistakes.…

— Fernando Sorrentino

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research…

— Simon Schama

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in order to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

— Vladimir Nabokov