Book Quote by Debra Hamel

“It came out smoothly and without a single hesitation, supporting my idea that stories are artifacts: not really made things which we create (and…

— Stephen King

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.”

— A.G. Riddle

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

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then…

— Robin Sloan

“Saving History One Story at a Time”

— MWSA website

“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”

— Sara Sheridan

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

— Buzz Aldrin

“The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than…

— Daniel Kahneman

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

“When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.”

— Robert McKee

“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