Archives Quote by Sara Sheridan

“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues…

— Sara Sheridan

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without…

— Charles de Lint

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

— Amy Neftzger

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

— Philip Pullman

“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do…

— Lauren Willig

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

— Taryn Simon

“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today”

— Gillian Hovell

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just…

— Steven Hall

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“There are no mysteries, only unanswered questions that have no answers, and the memory of people who enter and leave our lives, for a…

— Danielle Steel