All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
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Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
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