Habits Quote by Peter Ackroyd

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

— Agatha Christie

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

— John W. Gardner

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Nobody ever lived in the past.

— David McCullough

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

— Dorothy West

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

— Joe Sabia

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

— Benedetto Croce

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

There is no history, only histories.

— Karl Popper

“The most important events in every age never reach the history books.”

— C.S. Lewis

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

History is only written from what remains.

— Jill Lepore