Alternative Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image “The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alternative Attempt Become Best Historians History Writers Writing
“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.” — Michael J. Lansing Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.” — Federico Gamboa Copy Share Image
Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction… — Saul David Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring.… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources.… — Bob Latta Copy Share Image
I do not support a single-payer system; I do support having something there, whether it's an option or not. And we can work with… — David Scott Copy Share Image
There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy. — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
