Early Quote by Horton Foote

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

— Shimon Attie

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

Nothing spiritual to write? Then have spiritual experiences.

— John H. Groberg

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite…

— Chinua Achebe

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I…

— Pico Iyer

"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and…

— Neil Gaiman

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

— Lord Acton

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm…

— Jenny Zhang

I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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