Audience Quote by Patricia Leavy

There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford University Press.…

— Patricia Leavy

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in…

— Patricia Leavy

Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history…

— Patricia Leavy

As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to…

— Patricia Leavy

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

— Patricia Leavy

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation.…

— Alix Kates Shulman

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite…

— Chinua Achebe

I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have been so…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read stacks of…

— Julie Klassen