Books Quote by William H. Prescott

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the…

— William H. Prescott

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

— Richard Flanagan

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

— Barbara Tuchman

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales,…

— Angela Carter

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

— C.S. Lewis

“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.”

— Julien Gracq

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and…

— Anne Bogart

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization…

— Ray Bradbury

Literature is the history of mind.

— Ally Mbululo

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

— Louis de Bernieres

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You…

— Saint Augustine

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now,…

— Neil Gaiman