History Quote by John Ashbery

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

— John Ashbery

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?”

— Tamora Pierce

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“Why would you keep quiet and allow history to write itself when there is something you can do to rewrite history.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Don't let history write itself for you.”

— Christine Stobbe

“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.”

— Elspeth Marr

“What I've learned writing these stories is that history only looks heavy and solid. In fact, it won't ever stay still.”

— Emily Geminder

“History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.”

— Ladislas Farago