I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My…

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

— Quentin Tarantino

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

— Deanna Raybourn

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the…

— Ridley Scott

“And then earlier than that there were the crusades. The crusades were totally fucked. Richard the Lionheart, who had the heart of a lion…

— Eddie Izzard

It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have met because…

— Justin Cartwright

I would prefer to be known as Richard the Lionhearted.

— Richard Cordray

“What I've learned writing these stories is that history only looks heavy and solid. In fact, it won't ever stay still.”

— Emily Geminder

Scars are stories, history written on the body

— Kathryn Harrison

“Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family take hold. They're passed from generation to generation, gaining substance and meaning along…

— Christina Baker Kline

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

— Glenn Greenwald

“we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

— Paulo Coelho

All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I…

— Raymond E. Feist

“I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or written by…

— Liu Cixin

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

— Princess Michael of Kent