Drag Quote by Anthony Doerr

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

— Jonathan Dee

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“histories. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) historian Jean O’Brien names this practice of writing Indians out of existence “firsting and lasting.” All over the continent, local histories,…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by…

— Augustus William Hare

“All true histories contain instruction;”

— Emily Brontë

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

— Hugh Mackay

There is no history, only histories.

— Karl Popper

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

— Jack Horner

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities…

— Mitch Landrieu

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of…

— David Remnick

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national…

— Hannah Kent