Able Quote by Annie Leonard

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

— Donald Kagan

History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

— David Frum

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

Most history books are about power.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

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

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis