Culture Quote by Richard Handler

“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”

— Sara Sheridan

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical…

— Sara Sheridan

“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life”

— أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny

“that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of them, and…

— Robert Wright

“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.”

— Niall Ferguson

“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

“The absolute truth is the biggest myth in human history.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

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

— Michelle Richmond

“There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.”

— Kathy Acker

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.”

— Philippa Gregory