History Quote by Karl Marx

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

— Albert Camus

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

— Antony Beevor

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The men who make history have not time to write it.

— Klemens von Metternich

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

— Joseph Boyden

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

— Torvald Gahlin

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde