Writing Quote by Greg McKeown

“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it…

— C. N. Lester

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell

“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the…

— Margaret Atwood

“For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time . We…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Who knows what wonders, what horrors, may have transpired in the dim past, before our race stood erect? Who can guess at the mysteries…

— S.T. Joshi

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life…

— Patrick Nowell-Smith

“We never just sit around in the semi-dark and think. Modern information sources leave no time to think.”

— Robert Harris

“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore…

— Will Schwalbe