Quotes About Narrative

History is the propaganda of the victors.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

History is as much an art as a science.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

History - the devil's scripture

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

History is the distillation of rumour.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

History is sympathetic to its authors.