As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
George R. R. MartinFiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
George R. R. Martin