Chaos Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

— Russell Banks

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole…

— David Christian

“Order is the cipher by which Mind speaks to mind in the midst of chaos.”

— Ronald A. Knox

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

— Emilie Autumn

Most of us get our history through story.

— Yann Martel

“We believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-,…

— Richard Ford

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

— Elizabeth Crook

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

— Dwight Yoakam

“Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos.”

— William Gaddis

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who…

— Julia Bacha