History Writing Quotes

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”
― Kate Quinn, Daughters of Rome

“...Facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences.”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot

“For every written history, there is a silenced part of it, that is left to remain untold and undiscovered until history repeats itself.”
― Joon Mier da Mienta

“History has all too often been guilty of favouring the viewpoint of autocratic rulers in describing their glorious victories, when there is so much else that needs to be said.”
― Peter Heather, The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders