Civil war Quote by John Brandon

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

— Nicholas Sparks

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

— Anson Mount

Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from that time…

— George Saunders

I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the…

— Josh Radnor

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…

— Aminatta Forna

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

— David Maraniss

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I was fairly…

— H. W. Brands

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

— Susan Holloway Scott

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

— Ann Coulter