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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
— Woodrow Wilson
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
— Tony Ardizzone
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
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
— Haruki Murakami
Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.
— Jane Kirkpatrick
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
— John Muir
When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.
— Alison Hawthorne Deming
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
— Hermann Hesse
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
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
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
— Candace Camp
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
In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
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
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
— Ken Follett
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
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
Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing.
— James Gary Vineyard
I am writing history, and I can't be there.
— Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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
Stop making excuses and start making history.
— A.D. Posey
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
— Isabel Allende
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
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
History is what we read, write and think about the past.
— Michael Howard
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
— Michael Rostovtzeff
I am writing history and i do so with my eyes almost always full of tears
— Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
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
An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
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
