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I just love historical fiction.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

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

I like writing historical fiction.

As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.