Barry Unsworth Quotes

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. - Barry Unsworth

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. - Barry Unsworth

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. - Barry Unsworth

I'm unemployable in any other capacity. - Barry Unsworth

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist. - Barry Unsworth

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. - Barry Unsworth

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. - Barry Unsworth

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. - Barry Unsworth

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access. - Barry Unsworth

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