Good writers Quote by Peter Greenaway Download Open image “Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.” — Peter Greenaway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good writers Historian History Writing
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“I am writing this because on that night of the tenth of May in the 1,940th year of Our Lord, Churchill stood for more… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“...only Churchill carries that absolutely required criterion: indispensability. Without Churchill the world today would be unrecognizable--dark, impoverished, tortured.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Given that his rousing speeches play on a perpetual loop somewhere in the back of the national psyche, and the bulk of the country… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office was the leader of the country [1941]. One of Rowe's last memories was of hearing him hissed by ex-servicemen from the public gallery of a law court because he had told an abrupt unpalatable truth about… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” Winston Churchill” — Tammy Hinton Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Noughts, a third of which was a homage to Vermeer. Conceivably, if you are a list-enthusiast like me, the New York telephone directory might be fascinating, demographically, geographically, historically, typographically, cartographically; but I… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off… — Lorde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe,… — Tori Amos Copy Share
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi Copy Share Image
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
