You can't write about history without writing about…

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

— Anita Roddick

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

— Anonymous

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— Mitch Kapor

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is…

— Brian Fallon

I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any…

— Ray Guy

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and…

— Robert Hass

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

— A. S. Byatt

Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing…

— Epifanio de los Santos

History-writing is not a visit of condolence.

— Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too…

— Robert Hass

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

— Amitava Kumar