Character Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

“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

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to…

— Philip Roth

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

I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is…

— Scott Walker

I'm a person who enjoys history, and history is very important to us - very very important it's about making judgement on history. It's…

— Lindsay Hoyle

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want…

— LaMarr Woodley

Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a…

— George H. W. Bush

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

— Carl Jung

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde