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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. — Daniel Goldstein

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine. — Brad Jensen

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one. — Brook Tesla

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. — Susannah Mansfield

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn — Jo Ann Butler

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn't let them, and neither would history. — Lee Strauss

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. — Philip Guedalla

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R R Martin

I like fiction and the history...Great! — Idelys Izquierdo Laboy

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction. — W. H. Auden

Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms. — Frank Herbert

Do as you would be done by — Jennifer Dance

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. — Eleanor Antin

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met — Raji Singh

History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them. — Aziz Hamza

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us. — Evan Meekins

History is about the untold story, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to present the past in a compelling and entertaining way. — Paul W. Feenstra

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. — A.E. Samaan

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. — O. Henry

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face. — Robin Schone

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. — Nancy B. Brewer

They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason ... — Andrea Zuvich

What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history — Peter Cunningham

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. — Alison Weir

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said. — Hilary Mantel

History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world. — Judith Geary

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. — Anne Burack Sayre