History Quote by John Cleese

“Not afraid to write about my past to inspire your future”

— Jordone Branch

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything…

— Patrick O'Brian

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

— Eyedea

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If…

— Bettany Hughes

“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood”

— Yvonne Blackwood

I think we're on a journey…It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all…

— Donna Karan

It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob…

— Frankie Cosmos

You can't re-write your past, but you can grab a clean sheet of paper and write your future.

— Anonymous

“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.”

— Rabih Alameddine

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.…

— James W. Pennebaker