History Quote by Paul Murray

“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 tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“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

“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”

— Michelle Richmond

“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 simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

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

— George Santayana

“History isn’t a tale told once, it’s a series of revisions.”

— Victor LaValle

“We are surrounded by various histories and fragments from the ages. Some are true. Some are only the approximation of truth. Some truths are…

— Jeff Wheeler