History Quote by Upton Sinclair

“Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even…

— Bryan Forbes

“How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!”

— Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore we should…

— James D. Maxon

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“He thinks that, even if you have a great idea, there have to be trials and tribulations, errors and failures, a dark night of…

— Charles Yu

“In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.”

— Tim Willocks

“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of…

— Gregory Maguire

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”

— Aristotle

“We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips…

— Natalie Goldberg