Quote by John James

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer

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

— Stephen King

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

— Edmond de Goncourt

“In the time of writing you have to forget the present, if you can do that. Try to live in the period you are…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those…

— Umberto Eco

“Most people talk too much about the past. Let the past pass into the past.”

— Art Hochberg

“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.”

— Robert Harris

“Why ruin the present by talking about the past?”

— Victor Robert Lee

“It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It…

— Ann Marie Aguilar

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein