Bent Quote by Wallace Stegner

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

— Ken Burns

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less…

— Henry Ford

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

— Julian Jaynes

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners…

— Colum McCann

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me.…

— Henry Ford

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

— Douglas Coupland

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