History Quote by Jay Chandrasekhar

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because…

— Nikki Giovanni

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only…

— Christopher Bram

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Most of us get our history through story.

— Yann Martel

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

— Cary Fukunaga

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

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period…

— Amy Harmon

“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived mainly from…

— Richard J. Evans

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard