History Quote by Albert Camus

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

— Karl Marx

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

— Flannery O'Connor

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

— Marianne Moore

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

“Indeed I do belong to that dreadful class of persons known as the reclusive writer – the existential writer. For the existential writer as…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the…

— Samuel Johnson

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at…

— Leon Uris

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

— Gore Vidal