Administration Quote by Gore Vidal

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was…

— Gore Vidal

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the…

— Gene Hackman

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them…

— Per Petterson

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

— John Hope Franklin

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson

I write about families. That is who we are.

— Per Petterson

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes