History Quote by Shawn Alsager

“Nothing happens in this world that is not already a very old story.”

— Ann Tatlock I'll Watch the Moon

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

— Jacqueline Carey

“It’s a story about the stuff that happens just exactly when you weren’t expecting it; just on that night you thought nothing was going…

— Naomi Alderman

“There's always a story.”

— Richard Castle

“Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.”

— Chaim Potok

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“You can write a true story that never really happened.”

— Becky Aikman

“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

— Tim O'Brien

“Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.”

— Ted Dekker

“...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now.”

— Bill Cosby

“Sometimes, a story is just the thing we tell ourselves to escape the ordinariness of a life that has no tale to tell at…

— A.J. Grayson