“Some stories are true that never happened.”– Elie Wiesel Related Quotes “The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.”– Geraldine Brooks “And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw the Sight was presently afterwards deliver’d of a Child without a Head. So lives the Power of Imagination even in this Rationall Age.”— Peter Ackroyd “Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.”— George MacDonald