Books Quote by David Olusoga

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and…

— Peter Morgan

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies…

— Colm Toibin

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

— George H. W. Bush

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever…

— Scott Lynch

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn

“Changing Future History One Reader at a Time!”

— Henri Rast fromer Chief Editor at Voyager Press

If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay,…

— Kerry James Marshall

“They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares…

— Milan Kundera

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think the most…

— Dana Goldstein