Writing Quote by George Kennedy

“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a…

— Mary Ann Tolbert

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire

“The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.”

— von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

“There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us…

— Pamela Brown

“And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.”

— Trevanian

“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that…

— Socrates

“Quotes from Ancient Greece are mostly all bollocks”

— Karl Wiggins

“That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.”

— Dan Brown

“Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the…

— C.S. Lewis

“We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it…

— Ayn Rand