Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides. — Hisham Matar 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
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
“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past…… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“I would say that my ideal of writing history is to give the reader vicarious experience. You’re born in one particular century… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for… — David McCullough 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
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“here’s the thing about being a hero: Only a few ever make it into the history books. Every day, people do heroic… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
“A hobby. Not a business. Not a way of life. Not necessity. A hobby... An artificial thing. A thing that had no… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that… — Auguste Laurent 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
“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
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
“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
