Courses Quote by Sara Sheridan

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Kate Mosse

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on…

— Emma Donoghue

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

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

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

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 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

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

— George R. R. Martin

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

— Lauren Willig

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