Historical fiction Quote by Sarah Weinman

You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world that readers…

— Justin Cartwright

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

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

“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

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do…

— Melanie Benjamin

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

— Susan Sontag

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

— Andrew Lam

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 a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.”

— Philippa Gregory

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

While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while…

— Julie Klassen