About Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

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

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

— Karl Kraus

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and…

— James McAvoy

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

I'm a person who enjoys history, and history is very important to us - very very important it's about making judgement on history. It's…

— Lindsay Hoyle

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 is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends…

— Newt Gingrich

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

— Jesse Ventura