He was writing this in a preface to a fantasy novel, but I think it applies to all fiction. When I read a historical novel, I want to feel like this:
"You don't feel reading it, that someone has made this up, you feel that someone found out what happened and wrote it all down for you.'
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Quote from Neil Gaiman
Quote from Neil Gaiman
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
[quote=""EC2""]"You don't feel reading it, that someone has made this up, you feel that someone found out what happened and wrote it all down for you.' [/quote]
Love Neil Gaiman!
Love Neil Gaiman!
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