History Quote by Alexandra Bracken

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

— Jennifer Gilmore

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

— Yuval Noah Harari

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

— Catherine Doherty

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

— Mike Tyson

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

— Wendell Berry

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it…

— Katherine Paterson

If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay,…

— Kerry James Marshall

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the…

— Ken Liu

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future,…

— Peter Gay

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

— Albert Einstein

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

— C. K. Prahalad