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Archaeologists write history. Historians write propaganda.
RAIN BOJANGLES![]()
When historians write the closing chapter of 20th century, they'll write about the critical leadersh...
FRANK LAUTENBERG![]()
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is le...
NORMAN DAVIES Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
ALEXANDER DOWNER To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the techniqu...
ERICH AUERBACH![]()
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ...
FERDINAND MARCOS I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
GEEZER BUTLER The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you ...
DAVID IRVING We're going to write a whole new chapter for political science books that historians and lawyers can...
LINDA WALKER![]()
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS![]()
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write ...
NIALL FERGUSON![]()
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w...
KAZUO ISHIGURO![]()
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should ...
CAITLIN MORAN If something happens in my life that I want to write something about, then I do.
DANIELLE TREECE Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
SIMON MAWER There is something wholly likeable about most people who write about animals
ERIC DUTHIE That'll give us something to talk about.
GREG KIMBER Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic co...
RON FOURNIER![]()
Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write...
MICHAEL MORPURGO![]()
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is S...
JOHN AUBREY![]()
Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.
ABHIJIT NASKAR![]()
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen...
LAINI TAYLOR![]()
Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior
WILLIAM SAROYAN![]()
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writi...
MEG CABOT Hopefully, we'll give them something to be excited about.
DOUG JUSTICE![]()
Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.
CANDACE BUSHNELL I was looking at a lot of different things, searching for something to write about.
ELIZABETH CROOK![]()
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
GARY SHTEYNGART![]()
Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.
PENN JILLETTE![]()
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
PETER JENNINGS![]()
I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone ca...
HALSEY A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then mo...
FRED KAPLAN There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively...
MIN KIM You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and ce...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY![]()
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
BERNIE SIEGEL If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr...
JENEANE SESSUM The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK![]()
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
SOURCE UNKNOWN![]()
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The law itself follows gold.
PROPERTIUS The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the sheph...
PROPERTIUS I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.
MARC CHERRY Much of his poetry would come from something happening inside of him. It was always something that h...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ![]()
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all ...
JOSS WHEDON![]()
To write is to reveal oneself.
When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect ...
SANHITA BARUAH To write is to give meaning to suffering.
ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou...
SOMETHING CORPORATE![]()
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those abou...
BRUCE JACKSON![]()
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do ...
DANA GOODYEAR![]()
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say any...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Good reputations can take years to earn but only seconds to destroy.
DANYELLE SIEBEN We will leave that to historians.
LEE HAMILTON Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come u...
A.J. CHILSON Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA![]()
I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me, ... It's not a plan...
PAUL REISER![]()
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitte...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL![]()
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY![]()
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in...
KONRAD LORENZ![]()
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO![]()
Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out.
DAN BROWN Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to b...
JONATHAN COE![]()
But then the Roman Empire fell like this- "oh shit". And we went intowhat the historians called the ...
EDDIE IZZARD We are seeing the passing of a generation of historians at UTC.
JAMES RUSSELL![]()
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and ec...
KENNETH BAKER [President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself f...
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON![]()
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH![]()
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their pa...
F. SIONIL JOSE![]()
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have an...
RACHEL JOHNSON![]()
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
ELIAS CANETTI When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How...
TOM GLAZER![]()
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ...
LOUISE BROWN![]()
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the...
ELIE WIESEL![]()
I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri...
AARON NEVILLE Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and...
JESSE STUART I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about...
GREGG EASTERBROOK![]()
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
E.B. WHITE![]()
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistake...
DEAN KAMEN![]()
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for...
PAUL THEROUX![]()
Study men, not historians.
HARRY S TRUMAN![]()
If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last tim...
SHAWN AMOS![]()
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, sho...
WILL DURANT![]()
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, ...
WILL DURANT![]()
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY I told the guys (other assistants), 'If you think of something, write it down, because I'm not going...
NORM CHOW The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make ...
RANDALL MUNROE![]()
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for a...
DAVID DUCHOVNY History is too serious to be left to historians.
IAN MACLEOD![]()
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word...
RAY BRADBURY If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMINEZ![]()
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH![]()
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.
CHARLES STROSS There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE![]()
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
JOYCE CAROL OATES![]()
We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about?
ALEX TURNER I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
IRVIN KERSHNER
RAIN BOJANGLES
When historians write the closing chapter of 20th century, they'll write about the critical leadersh... FRANK LAUTENBERG
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is le... NORMAN DAVIES Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
ALEXANDER DOWNER To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the techniqu...
ERICH AUERBACH
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ... FERDINAND MARCOS I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
GEEZER BUTLER The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you ...
DAVID IRVING We're going to write a whole new chapter for political science books that historians and lawyers can...
LINDA WALKER
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k... JACKIE COLLINS
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write ... NIALL FERGUSON
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w... KAZUO ISHIGURO
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should ... CAITLIN MORAN If something happens in my life that I want to write something about, then I do.
DANIELLE TREECE Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
SIMON MAWER There is something wholly likeable about most people who write about animals
ERIC DUTHIE That'll give us something to talk about.
GREG KIMBER Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic co...
RON FOURNIER
Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write... MICHAEL MORPURGO
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is S... JOHN AUBREY
Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about. ABHIJIT NASKAR
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen... LAINI TAYLOR
Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior WILLIAM SAROYAN
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writi... MEG CABOT Hopefully, we'll give them something to be excited about.
DOUG JUSTICE
Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know. CANDACE BUSHNELL I was looking at a lot of different things, searching for something to write about.
ELIZABETH CROOK
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart. GARY SHTEYNGART
Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about. PENN JILLETTE
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. PETER JENNINGS
I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone ca... HALSEY A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then mo...
FRED KAPLAN There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively...
MIN KIM You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and ce...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about. BERNIE SIEGEL If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr...
JENEANE SESSUM The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. SOURCE UNKNOWN
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The law itself follows gold.
PROPERTIUS The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the sheph...
PROPERTIUS I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.
MARC CHERRY Much of his poetry would come from something happening inside of him. It was always something that h...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all ... JOSS WHEDON
To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect ...
SANHITA BARUAH To write is to give meaning to suffering.
ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou...
SOMETHING CORPORATE
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those abou... BRUCE JACKSON
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do ...
DANA GOODYEAR
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say any... SIR WALTER RALEIGH Good reputations can take years to earn but only seconds to destroy.
DANYELLE SIEBEN We will leave that to historians.
LEE HAMILTON Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come u...
A.J. CHILSON Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA
I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me, ... It's not a plan... PAUL REISER
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitte... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in... KONRAD LORENZ
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he ... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out. DAN BROWN Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to b...
JONATHAN COE
But then the Roman Empire fell like this- "oh shit". And we went intowhat the historians called the ... EDDIE IZZARD We are seeing the passing of a generation of historians at UTC.
JAMES RUSSELL
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and ec... KENNETH BAKER [President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself f...
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei... SYLVIA PLATH
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their pa... F. SIONIL JOSE
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have an... RACHEL JOHNSON
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. ELIAS CANETTI When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How...
TOM GLAZER
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ... LOUISE BROWN
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the... ELIE WIESEL
I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri... AARON NEVILLE Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and...
JESSE STUART I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about...
GREGG EASTERBROOK
Don't write about Man; write about a man. E.B. WHITE
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistake... DEAN KAMEN
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for... PAUL THEROUX
Study men, not historians. HARRY S TRUMAN
If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last tim... SHAWN AMOS
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, sho... WILL DURANT
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, ... WILL DURANT
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ... RAY BRADBURY I told the guys (other assistants), 'If you think of something, write it down, because I'm not going...
NORM CHOW The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make ...
RANDALL MUNROE
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for a... DAVID DUCHOVNY History is too serious to be left to historians.
IAN MACLEOD
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word... RAY BRADBURY If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMINEZ
If they give you lined paper, write the other way. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write. CHARLES STROSS There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. JOYCE CAROL OATES
We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about? ALEX TURNER I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
IRVIN KERSHNER
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. 
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is... 