Quotes About Fiction

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

I love being educated by historical novels.

After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.

I like writing historical fiction.

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

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

The danger with genre is playing genre instead of playing the honesty of what's going on.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future would lie with writing.

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.