Historical Quote by Sara Sheridan

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

— Anonymous

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

— H. L. Mencken

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

— Thea Sharrock

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader…

— Louis L'Amour

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

— Karl Kraus

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

“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and…

— Sara Sheridan

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction…

— Saul David

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from…

— Thomas Mallon