Talked Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

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

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

— Orson Welles

There is properly no history, only biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no history; only biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is only gossip.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

— Jonathon Keats

All history is biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

— Tom Stoppard

I normally ignore the History Channel.

— Diablo Cody

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

— John Irving

There is no history, only histories.

— Karl Popper

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies.…

— Stacy Schiff