Alive Quote by Ernest Gaines

But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened,…

— Horton Foote

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous

I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of…

— Patti Davis

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and…

— Marge Piercy

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

— Skylar Grey

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

— Maya Angelou

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about…

— Patti Davis

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just…

— Will Hobbs