Quotes About Narrative

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

History is the siren song of the soul.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

History is merely gossip

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

History is His story.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.