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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

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