History Quote by Emil M. Cioran

“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.”

— Richard Dawkins

“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.”

— Judith Geary

“I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Michael J. Lansing

“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.”

— Federico Gamboa

“As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.”

— Sara Sheridan

“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.”

— Hyeonseo Lee

“I would say that my ideal of writing history is to give the reader vicarious experience. You’re born in one particular century at a…

— Anonymous

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

— Kate Quinn

“EVERY HISTORIAN WRITES IN—and is impacted by—a precise historical moment.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell