He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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 way into reading history proper.
Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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