Book Quote by Monica Lewinsky

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

— Torvald Gahlin

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human…

— Sorin Cerin

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

— David Ben-Gurion

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

— Karl Marx

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his…

— Voltaire

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

— Kurt Busiek

“Salman Rushdie said, "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version…

— Veronica Bale

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

— Ernest Hemingway

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

— Pittacus Lore

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson