Historian Quote by Hilary Mantel

People have different ways of interpreting history.

— Nate Silver

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

— David Frum

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

— Lucy Dacus

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other,…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Normal people don't have to decide what's worth remembering. You are given a hierarchy, recurring characters, the help of repetition, of anticipation, the firm…

— David Levithan

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

— Oliver Stone

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

— Erik Erikson

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to…

— James Salter

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than…

— George Oppen