Historical fiction Quote by Peggy Ullman Bell

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

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

— Philippa Gregory

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

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

— Judith Geary

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

— Stephen King

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“History is fiction.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

“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

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

— Antony Beevor