Differences Quote by Jim Bishop

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

— Jim Bishop

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

(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

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

— F. Sionil Jose

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts.…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at…

— Edward Rutherfurd

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis