Emma the Curious 🧐 on Nostr: “Why write a historical novel? Writers’ motives are as varied as criminals’, ...

“Why write a historical novel? Writers’ motives are as varied as criminals’, but I suspect that the historical novelist’s genetic code contains the geeky genes of the model-maker – there is pleasure to be had in the painstaking reconstruction of a lost world.”

David Mitchell on writing historical fiction.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7685510/David-Mitchell-on-Historical-Fiction.html