Books Quote by Ari Berk

“Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?”

— Damien Echols

“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”

— Margaret Coel

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer

“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when…

— Wilkie Collins

“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the…

— Margaret Atwood

“The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.”

— Andrew Levkoff

“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed yesterday or…

— William Haizlett

“Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the…

— Jan Siegel

“The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...”

— S.R. Ford

“We are each the author of our own story. No matter the past, we compose today’s pages. The trick is in deciding what you…

— Emmanuelle de Maupassant

“Forget not the past. The past prepares us for the present. The present equipped us for the future.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of…

— John le Carré