Creation Quote by Steven Knight

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look…

— Steven Knight

I think history is just so cyclical.

— Alexandra Bracken

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

— David Grann

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

— John W. Gardner

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right…

— Rose Tremain

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

— James Buchan

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes,…

— James Ferguson