History Quote by Joseph Boyden

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is…

— Alanis Obomsawin

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Most of us get our history through story.

— Yann Martel

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

History depends on who is telling the story.

— James O'Shaughnessy

“STORY” is more than half of the word “HISTORY”. And that’s no accident.”

— Glenn Beck

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

— Christopher Jackson

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history…

— Sarah Vowell

There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not…

— Ariel Pink

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

— Joseph Boyden