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The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
— Frank Herbert
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
Facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences.
— Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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
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
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
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
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
We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.
— Richard Marius
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
In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The timeless books remain the footprints of history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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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
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
— Walter Isaacson
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
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
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
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
— Doris Lessing
How would you document the history of today?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
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
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
— Michael Rostovtzeff
We are only writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
— Agatha Christie
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
— William Cowper
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
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
— Anne Frank
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
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
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
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
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
