Accurate Quote by Lord Acton

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are…

— Dorothea Brande

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

— Josh Billings

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with…

— Nat Turner

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however…

— Walter Scott

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

— Peter Drucker

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

— Anonymous

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the…

— Walt Whitman

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale