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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.