Available Quote by Noam Chomsky

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

— Martha Gellhorn

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

— Riff Raff

I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it.

— Bettany Hughes

Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's…

— George Packer

I've been keeping journals since I was a kid.

— Mariette Hartley

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

— Ned Beauman

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what…

— Miranda Cosgrove

For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't…

— Andrew Sean Greer

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years'…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where…

— Oliver Harris