Creative Quote by C. V. Wedgwood

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

— Pieter Geyl

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

— Carl L. Becker

Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.

— Ann Reinking

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

— Karl Marx

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.”

— Mark Elvin

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living…

— David Grann