Arrow Quote by Anthony Doerr

“Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at age forty-nine using a “trial-and-error method,” scholars note, and “discovered his pliable plot as he went…

— Adam M. Grant

“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances,…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Some Stories Begin At The End Of Times”

— Michael J. Frey

“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.”

— Dennis R. Miller

In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one reason or…

— Erik Larson

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical…

— Sara Sheridan

“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”

— Sara Sheridan

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

— Bob Newhart

“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when sitting rapt…

— Lyndsay Faye

“The men had two favorite modes of speech, wild exaggeration and ludicrous understatement. Ideally, both were delivered deadpan. Time and again, the accounts overflow…

— Edward Dolnick

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond…

— Alexis Denisof