Historical fiction Quote by Wilkie Collins

“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his books. He…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I love reading (and writing) historical fiction.”

— Barbara Carney-Coston

“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

“The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.”

— Isaac Goldberg

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

“As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they?…

— Giles Lytton Strachey

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to…

— Richard Denney

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

— Eleanor Brown

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius,…

— Jane Austen