Difficult Quote by Erich Auerbach

The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly.

— Lobsang Tenzin

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts…

— Ridley Scott

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at…

— Edward Rutherfurd

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

— Andrzej Duda

“Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.”

— Adrien Rouquette

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and…

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— Michael J. Lansing

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

— Ferdinand Marcos

“Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware of possibilities…

— Yuval Noah Harari