Great writer Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

— Ferdinand Marcos

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

— Jim Bishop

“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his books. He…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.”

— Federico Gamboa