Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“It seems altogether probable that we would live with far greater care if we realized that in living out our day we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now… — Neymar Copy Share Image
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
In ancient times, the historians took pride on themselves that they were lucky for getting the opportunity to write the history of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“Thunderstorms were common in Sarantium on midsummer nights, sufficiently so to make plausible the oft-repeated tale that the Emperor Apius passed to… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to get too narrow too fast. Kids today, many of them will live past 100, and you cant predict… — Megan Smith Copy Share Image
Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“To what end the ‘world’ exists, to what end ‘mankind’ exists, ought not to concern us at all for the moment except… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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