Aspect Quote by Raymond Queneau

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

— Thomas Steinbeck

“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,…

— Terry Nardin

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

— David Bowie

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With…

— Pat Barker

It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on…

— Andrew Haigh

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in…

— Sebastian Koch

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and…

— Albert Camus

The history of a man is in his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it's perfectly legitimate to play with known historical characters and events,…

— Diana Gabaldon