--- title: "1 Kind Writer Quotes By Jill Lepore" description: "1 Kind Writer quotes by Jill Lepore. Plus more from Jill Lepore and more Kind Writer sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b9/jill-lepore-4886_always_i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not_998508.png" --- > [I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not-necessarily-a-particular-kind/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b9/jill-lepore-4886_always_i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not_998508.png) ## More by Jill Lepore > [Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/weirdly-there-have-been-a-lot-of-critics-of-conservatism-but-very-few/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [History is only written from what remains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/history-is-only-written-from-what-remains/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/the-study-of-history-requires-investigation-imagination-empathy-and/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/well-reported-news-is-a-public-good-bad-news-is-bad-for-everyone/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/the-very-first-television-ad-targeted-to-women-was-produced-by-the/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/republicans-were-more-pro-choice-than-democrats-up-until-the-late/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/it-feels-silly-to-watch-endless-hours-of-winter-sports-every-four/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/historians-once-assumed-that-when-childhood-mortality-was-high-people/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/when-carrying-a-concealed-weapon-for-self-defense-is-understood-not/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > ['Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/doctor-who-is-unavoidably-a-product-of-mid-twentieth-century-debates/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/still-it-strikes-me-that-taken-together-they-do-make-an-argument-and/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/one-day-i-was-playing-the-game-of-life-the-board-game-with-a-mess-of/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/mainly-the-more-faddish-and-newer-stages-of-life-are-really-just/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the past and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/politics-is-a-story-about-the-relationship-between-the-past-and-the/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/not-long-before-my-mother-died-i-found-a-long-lost-portrait-of-jane/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind-writer/jill-lepore/#itemlist", "name": "1 Kind Writer Quotes By Jill Lepore", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jill Lepore" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not-necessarily-a-particular-kind/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b9/jill-lepore-4886_always_i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not_998508.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b9/jill-lepore-4886_always_i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not_998508.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b9/jill-lepore-4886_always_i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not_998508.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.” — Jill Lepore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind-writer/jill-lepore/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind-writer/jill-lepore/", "name": "Kind Writer Quotes by Jill Lepore", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind-writer/jill-lepore/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b9/jill-lepore-4886_always_i-always-just-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not_998508.png" }, "description": "1 Kind Writer quotes by Jill Lepore. 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