Decided Quote by Peter Gay

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

— Samir Nasri

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that

— Claude Lanzmann

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then…

— Robin Sloan

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

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

— Riff Raff

I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

— Lucy Dacus

The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true…

— Edward M. Lerner

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

— Joseph Conrad

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

— Lord Acton

I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into…

— Stephen Karam