Book Quote by Tony Judt

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

— Jesse Ventura

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

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

— Anthony Doerr

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

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things,…

— Donald Kagan

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world -…

— Sara Sheridan

I like writing historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it…

— Jennifer Armstrong

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory