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History-writing is not a visit of condolence. — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier

The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. — Lynn Abbey

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl

Facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences. — Michel-Rolph Trouillot

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The poet writes the history of his own body. — Henry David Thoreau

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words. — Mo Willems

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities. — Sara Sheridan

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it. — John Cleese

Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it. — Jane Kirkpatrick

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. — Hermann Hesse

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. — Ani DiFranco

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. — Victor Hugo

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot. — Edwin Mullins

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. — Oscar Handlin

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well. — Bernard-Henri Levy

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose. — Hampton Sides

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name. — Maya Angelou

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading. — Richard Marius

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. — Imre Kertesz

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it. — Walter Isaacson

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? — Will Durant

For every written history, there is a silenced part of it, that is left to remain untold and undiscovered until history repeats itself. — Joon Mier Da Mienta

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.. — Willem De Kooning

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

In writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor ... — Philip Pullman

History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it. — Terry Goodkind

I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest. — Sara Sheridan

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life. — Maxine Hong Kingston

there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth. — Robert Graves

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present. — Marshall McLuhan

Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material. — Pat Conroy

How would you document the history of today? — Lailah Gifty Akita

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me. — Earle Birney

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. — Doris Lessing

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau

We are only writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. — Barbara W. Tuchman

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this. — Breyten Breytenbach

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. — Michael Rostovtzeff

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. — Stephen King

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. — Helen Keller

History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone. — Sara Sheridan

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature. — Paul Lauterbur

Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures. — Sara Sheridan

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself ... — A.S. Byatt

The story we write today will support the next generation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Half of writing history is hiding the truth. — Joss Whedon

The mysteries of life enfold with time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger

History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind. — Peter Adejimi

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press. — Sara Sheridan

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal. — Abba Eban

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. — Donald Davis

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West. — Harold Innis

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear. — M. Kirin

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. — Agatha Christie

Historical gap is created due to missing written records. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations. — Jason E. Hodges

The timeless books remain the footprints of history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

By definition he [the writer] cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it — Albert Camus

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied? — James Hamilton-Paterson

I am writing history and i do so with my eyes almost always full of tears — Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal