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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

Each one writes history according to his convenience. — Jose Rizal

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

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

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

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. — A. Whitney Brown

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

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

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

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. — M.T. Bass

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

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

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

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

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

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

[When it comes to writing]The first steps that are the hardest. Mine were accidental in a away. I wrote what I wanted on a blog & the rest is history. — A.J. Walters

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine. — J.R. Ackerley

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

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it. — Ruby Bentall

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

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

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

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels. — Jan Smuts

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

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

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

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

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

We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it. — Marty Rubin

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

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

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

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