Amnesia Quote by Eduardo Galeano

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if…

— George Santayana

“What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective consciousness? If historical novels stir your interest, pursue the…

— Ruta Sepetys

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

Remembrance of things past.

— William Shakespeare

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

— Wendell Berry

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm a historian in my own mind.

— Quentin Tarantino