Diana Gabaldon Quotes

A good story never dies.

We're trying to let people see what their grandfather told them about.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

We want every generation to know a little something about TLC.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It's good to pass on stories.

Most of us get our history through story.