Characters Quote by Dave Webb

“What I've learned writing these stories is that history only looks heavy and solid. In fact, it won't ever stay still.”

— Emily Geminder

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

“History is fiction.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“History is what people want to remember.”

— Jane Stevenson

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one…

— Michelle Richmond

“Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.”

— Terry Nardin