Everything has a story,a history or past Nothing ever just…

“Nice things don’t happen in storybooks,” Taryn says. “Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring,…

— Holly Black

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified…

— Mark Hopkins

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus…

— Edward M. Lerner

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

— Joseph Boyden

What happened today is an events' tomorrow it becomes story while it becomes a history in future' for a new generation to learn.

— Emmanuel Olukwu Nwole

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

— Chath Piersath

Our love story is history

— Lala Adila

“SO endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without…

— Mark Twain

The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were…

— Colin Callender

Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won the Pulitzer…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

My scars are my story … my history is written all over my body.

— Anonymous

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

— Stephen King

“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without…

— Mark Twain

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

— Christine Keeler