Books Quote by Lawrence Wright

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes…

— Andre Gide

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

— Simon Schama

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

— Mark Haddon

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable…

— Eudora Welty

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

— Douglas Adams

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get…

— Michael Scott

“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake…

— Penelope Lively

Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a beginning, middle, and end, because you start watching it and then you're in…

— Saschka Unseld

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

— Neil Gaiman