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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just love historical fiction.
I like writing historical fiction.
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world that readers can enter. It's especially so, I think, for writers of historical fiction.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
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