Quotes About Narrative

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

History is not what happened but what is written down

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

History a distillation of rumor