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I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

— Christopher Koch

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✓Similar Perspectives

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

— Jennifer Gilmore

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

— Laurie Graham

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

— Cary Fukunaga

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

— Judith Tarr

I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

— Vincent Piazza

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

— Carl Jung

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

— Bill Nighy

✗Opposing Perspectives

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

— Anita Shreve