Quotes About Narrative

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

A book brings its own history to the reader.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

All history is a lie!

But then history does not only consist of documents.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

History is everything that has ever happened.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.