Quotes About Storytelling

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

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

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History is merely gossip

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

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