Arriving Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and…

— Sara Sheridan

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

“What happened to all the historical detritus in the world? Some of it made it into drawers of museums, okay, but what about all…

— Reif Larsen

“Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant mosaic of…

— Jonathan Lethem

“some of history’s lessons here with respect to writing should be obvious: make a copy; back up your data; and beware of invaders.”

— Brian Carroll

Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief,…

— Tom Peters

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

— Alison Weir

“By this time, I had become fond of the story that nobody wanted. I revised it again and had 200 twenty-four-page pamphlets printed at…

— Philip Van Doren Stern

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has…

— Sara Sheridan