Business Quote by Karl Shapiro

“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

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that…

— Sam Zell

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a…

— Aldous Huxley

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

— George Santayana

I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have been so…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in…

— Billy Bragg

The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but…

— Timothy Garton Ash

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the…

— Orson Scott Card

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go…

— Colin Firth