Books Quote by Susan Meissner Download Open image ““I think literature reveals more about us than history does.”” — Susan Meissner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books History
“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.” — Judith Geary Copy Share Image
“History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.” — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend the difference… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Death doesn't ever look at shoulda, though, does it? Death looks at nothing. It just does what it's meant to do.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don’t… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . .” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I… — Susan Meissner 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
