Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our assumptions about…

— Greg McKeown

“History is written by every generation. Every generation writes its own history using the same sources. The interpretations vary according to time.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As the wind blows, people will change their ideas about the future and reminisce about the past that once was.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“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

“It has been argued that we have reason to know that the future will resemble the past, because what was the future has constantly…

— Bertrand Russell

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“History is re-creation while literature is creation.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra