History Quote by Kate Moore

“Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780s was probably punishable…

— James Goss

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed…

— Virginia Woolf

“Helen didn't yet understand that conjuring up the future was the duty of the living, what they owed to the dead.”

— Tatjana Soli

“Emma dropped the letter. The first thing she felt was a sinking in her stomach and a trembling in her knees; then, a sense…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“If she left- when she left- Antarctica would be a memory, than a memory of a memory, and eventually it would just be a…

— Emma Törzs

“Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty.”

— Janet Kagan

“What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might it have…

— David Nicholls

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever…

— Brandon Sanderson

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

— Celeste Ng

“A male—even such a male as Tibby—was enough to stop the foolery. The barrier of sex, though decreasing among the civilised, is still high,…

— E. M. Forster

“Or there were the poets and thinkers. Suppose he had had that passion, and had gone to Sir William Bradshaw, a great doctor yet…

— Virginia Woolf