Fiction Quote by Gareth Johnson

“History is initially written by the victors who survived until being rewritten by the vanquished who survived longer.”

— Michael William Cook

“History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.”

— Donald Cameron Watt

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

— Max Lerner

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

— Susan Howe

“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.”

— Brian Herbert

“Being survivors signifies that we have recognized that we have been through a lot that should never have taken place and we now hope…

— Patricia Dsouza

“The more we lose, the more we become the survivors.”

— Carrie Ryan

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“We are the makers of history, not its victims.”

— John Heilemann

“They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.”

— Mark T. Barnes

“We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are.”

— Jennifer Egan