Enemy Quote by Newt Gingrich

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

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

— John Hope Franklin

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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

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

— F. Sionil Jose

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to…

— Jim Bishop

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to…

— Lucy Worsley

I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a…

— Lucy Dacus

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

— John Sedgwick