History Quote by Teju Cole

“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who have locked…

— R. N. Prasher

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and…

— Paul Murray

Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and…

— H. W. Brands

“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And…

— Angela Y. Davis

“What I've learned writing these stories is that history only looks heavy and solid. In fact, it won't ever stay still.”

— Emily Geminder

“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 history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from…

— Barbara Quick

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

— Brian Friel

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman