Bearing witness Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go…

— Colin Firth

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others…

— Margaret MacMillan

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

— Kay Ryan

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

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