After Quote by David Christian

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting…

— Michael Morpurgo

History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who…

— Julia Bacha

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

— Jonathan Coe

I like the stories with the historical themes.

— Sarah Sutton

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history…

— Sarah Vowell

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline…

— Chelsea Martin

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

I like stories. I like to figure out how history ties to the present.

— Jim Nantz

Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped me find…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Christopher Jackson

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

— Elizabeth Crook