Book Quote by Jose Rizal

“You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.”

— Sebastien de Castell

“Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn from history…

— Nancy Omeara

“America stands before the world as an impetuous void, a fatality without substance. Nothing prepared her for hegemony; yet she tends toward it, not…

— Emil Cioran

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the…

— Dacia Maraini

A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the…

— Del Quentin Wilber

“As in other tests it was now the moment of decision; she was given a final chance to reverse the inevitable course of destiny—ever…

— Don Bradley

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The…

— Lisa Cach

Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It begins to dawn on her that she is lackadaisical about other people. They are tremendously important to her for a time and then…

— Diane Schoemperlen