Exquisite Quote by Joseph Campbell

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

— Ian Jack

“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

“I write now what 15 years past I would still not have thought possible to write: that if today I were given the choice…

— Clara Claiborne Park

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

— Lincoln Barnett

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old…

— Richard Harding Davis

The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.

— Mahmud Shabistari

I definitely don't aspire to writing that's 'timeless,' whatever that means.

— Sally Rooney

“You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in your own experience,—that all human progress is in a circle; or, to use…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

— Saskia de Brauw

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced -…

— Jim Bakker

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it…

— Samuel Butler