History Writing Quotes
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History Writing Quotes & Sayings
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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
— Steven Moffat
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
— Kanye West
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
The men who make history have not time to write it.
— Klemens Von Metternich
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
— Tony Ardizzone
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
— Oscar Wilde
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
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 only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
— Michel De Montaigne
There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.
— Varric Tethras
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
— Walter Raleigh
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
— Mo Willems
Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
— John Cleese
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
— John Muir
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
— Ani DiFranco
Life will be empty without great stories to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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 like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
— Gustave Flaubert
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
— Winston S. Churchill
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
— John Hope Franklin
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
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.
— Edward Hoagland
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
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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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
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
— Candace Camp
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
— Sara Sheridan
History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.
— Peter Adejimi
Hanging out is good historical methodology.
— Jean Pfaelzer
Making history was so much better than writing it.
— Kate Quinn
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
— Lion Feuchtwanger
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
— Paul Lauterbur
History its what those bitter old men write. — Jackie Kennedy
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
History is what we read, write and think about the past.
— Michael Howard
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
— Vernor Vinge
History is about the untold story, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to present the past in a compelling and entertaining way.
— Paul W. Feenstra
If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.
— J.J. Scarisbrick
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
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History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
Historical gap is created due to missing written records.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
— Winston Churchill
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
Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
— Sara Sheridan
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
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
— Isabel Allende
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
— Agatha Christie
I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest.
— Sara Sheridan
Stop making excuses and start making history.
— A.D. Posey
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
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
— Joss Whedon
Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
— Richard Marius
The story we write today will support the next generation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.
— Tom Jenkinson
Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
— Sara Sheridan
An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
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
The mysteries of life enfold with time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am writing history and i do so with my eyes almost always full of tears
— Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
Movies are like writing history with lightning.
— Woodrow Wilson
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
— Paul Watson
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
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
— Anne Frank
