Am Quote by Chester Brown

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

— Paul Auster

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is…

— Alanis Obomsawin

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

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most…

— Atom Egoyan

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical…

— Miranda Wilcox

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation of the…

— Fiona Bruce

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and…

— James D'arcy

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

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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

— Christopher Jackson

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies,…

— Grace Paley

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro