Around Quote by Saul David

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

— Andrew Lam

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

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

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived,…

— Alison Weir

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

— Philippa Gregory

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

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

— Jon Weisman

“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

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

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when…

— Emily Barton