Writing Your Own History Quotes
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Writing Your Own History Quotes & Sayings
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History-writing is not a visit of condolence.
— Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
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
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
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
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
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
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
