Good writers Quote by Jim Bishop Download Open image “A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.” — Jim Bishop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writers Guy History Suspicious Writing
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always,… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
“A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: “My father always said, when you make a bad bargain, hug it… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off… — Lorde Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi Copy Share Image
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
