History Quote by Michael Korda

“History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours…

— Tom Lloyd

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

— Christina Baldwin

“If one wants to find out what lies beyond the frontier, the only way to do so is to go beyond it and see.…

— Robert S. de Ropp

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

— Stephen King

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

— Ian Mcewan

“History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.”

— Elena Lappin

“To become truly unmistakable I have to be willing to ditch the map, travel without a guidebook, and see where it leads me.”

— Srinivas Rao

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map… A…

— Stephen King

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

— Anonymous

“We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.”

— Harry Bauld