Back Quote by Alan Garner

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

— David Rockwell

“When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and adjust our timeline. By…

— Erik Pevernagie

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself…

— David McCullough

As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to…

— Patricia Leavy

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

— Duane Michals

“Time moves through the pages of your thoughts like a history lesson posed for a self portrait in the mirror of the affected past.…

— Calvin W. Allison

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

— T. S. Eliot

“Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where one’s roots are, where one comes from.…

— bell hooks

“The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There are certain topics that I've come back to time and again throughout my career. On 'To the Bone,' there are certain subjects I…

— Steven Wilson

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

— Robert Penn Warren

If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable…

— Alex Haley