Fiction Quote by Wendell Berry

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

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

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

— George R. R. Martin

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

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

— Karin Slaughter

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

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

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

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

“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 just love historical fiction.

— Jennifer Donnelly

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on…

— Charles Frazier