Change Quote by Alanis Obomsawin

I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how…

— Ru Freeman

Most of us get our history through story.

— Yann Martel

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

— Lynn Nottage

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

First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a…

— Anthony Hemingway

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

— Christopher Jackson

Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform it, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

— Cary Fukunaga

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

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

— Kristin Cashore

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

— Jodi Picoult