Existence Quote by Michael Ende

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

— Anonymous

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth…

— Erin Morgenstern

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those…

— Umberto Eco

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

— Edmond de Goncourt

The Past Is Written on Your Face once we see ourselves in that much bigger context we are a mere blip in time we…

— Anonymous

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

— Len Wiseman

“It is difficult to create a new story when we are still living in our past stories.”

— Teri Karjala

I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some…

— Ruth Jones

Old stories often turn out to be true.

— Arthur Machen

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

— Edna Buchanan