Big things Quote by Jonah Goldberg

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who…

— Louis L'Amour

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Frank Herbert

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

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

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”

— A.H. Septimius

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only…

— Christopher Bram

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

— F. Sionil Jose