Change Quote by Robin Sloan

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric,…

— Camilla Gibb

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

I don't like fiction, I like reading proper history.

— Tony Pulis

I do not love fiction, I love history.

— Duane Hanson

“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

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what…

— Sarah Dessen

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn…

— Cynthia Ozick

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

— Jon Weisman

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