Archives Quote by Sara Sheridan

“Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.”

— Sara Sheridan

“History is dead until we make it live; but it is the lively interpretation of history that makes it interesting.”

— Robert J. Devaux

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.”

— Joseph McElroy

“Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable.”

— Nina Sankovitch

“After the dead words, after the ones still said and spoken, what do you expect? Some flying leaves, more scattered papers. Who knows? Some…

— Vicente Aleixandre

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive.”

— Candace Fleming

“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello!…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once…

— Candace Fleming

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

“He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty…

— Stephen King

“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade of the…

— Blake Crouch