Earth Quote by Ysabeau S. Wilce

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 is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

— A. J. P. Taylor

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

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

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

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

“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

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a…

— Peter Ackroyd

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore