History Quote by Geoff Ryman

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”

— Péter Esterházy

“It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.”

— George Orwell

“History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.”

— Eca De Queiroz

“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”

— David Mitchell

“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.”

— C.B. Huesing

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

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

— Judith Geary

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“History is fiction.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“I finally understood — the past belongs in the past. What we hold onto as fantasy doesn’t always survive reality.”

— Anonymous

“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”

— Paula Wall

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

— Adrien Rouquette