Cannot Quote by Bettany Hughes

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If…

— Bettany Hughes

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War…

— James A. Michener

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull…

— Elie Wiesel

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

— Christina Baldwin

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

— Susan Holloway Scott

“I would say that my ideal of writing history is to give the reader vicarious experience. You’re born in one particular century at a…

— Anonymous

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

— Steven Pressfield