Basically Quote by Rick Perlstein

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

— Kate Mosse

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted,…

— Sara Sheridan

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

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts.…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed…

— Francis Parkman

“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do…

— Lauren Willig

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David

If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that…

— Kathleen Rooney

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

— John Cusack

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