Advice Quote by Lord Acton

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If…

— Bettany Hughes

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

— Ferdinand Marcos

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

— Samir Nasri

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

— David Maraniss

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in…

— David McCullough

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk