Books Quote by Alfred de Vigny Download Open image “History is a novel for which the people is the author.” — Alfred de Vigny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books History Inspirational Love Novel People
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a… — Saul David Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it… — Daniel Aaron Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
