Ambition Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just…

— T.C. Boyle

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the…

— Ken Liu

I'm about making history and doing things that haven't been done before.

— Austin Aries

I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is…

— Scott Walker

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the…

— Paul Johnson

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice…

— Philippa Gregory

My main goal is to study how people think, but at first, I'll have to study the mind of God, that's how I can…

— Sabelo Lan Mashabela

I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot…

— Sarnath Banerjee

A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the…

— Del Quentin Wilber

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

— Jock Sturges

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

— Yuval Noah Harari