Details Quote by Arthur Golden

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

— Nancy Horan

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the…

— Jack Vance

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

— Christine Keeler

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— George Santayana

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

— Imre Kertész

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the…

— Anne Brontë

History! Read it and weep!

— Kurt Vonnegut

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

— Anonymous