Attention Quote by Erik Larson

As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories…

— Naomie Harris

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical…

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in caves they…

— D.E. Stevenson

Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as…

— Anthony Doerr

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted BACKDROP…

— Milan Kundera

I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some…

— Ruth Jones

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

“His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians accepted it…

— Saul Bellow

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

— Anonymous

“One danger is, we might hurry through life, enduring event after event, in order to build our list of experiences. Our stock of stories.…

— Chuck Palahniuk