Books Quote by Saul David Download Open image “The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.” — Saul David ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books History History books People Who Zeal
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a… — Saul David Copy Share Image
I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at… — John Hume Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power. — Saul David Copy Share Image
By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million… — Saul David Copy Share Image
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long… — Saul David Copy Share Image
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli. — Saul David Copy Share Image
If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment. — Saul David Copy Share Image
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a… — Saul David Copy Share Image
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer… — Saul David Copy Share Image
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S.… — Saul David Copy Share Image
I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s. — Saul David Copy Share Image
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the… — Saul David Copy Share Image
It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they… — Saul David Copy Share Image
The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles'… — Saul David Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image