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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I like writing historical fiction.
I like going back and writing fiction.
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 tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
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.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.