#story

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#contain #england #history #law #newspapers

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#always #even #governments #hatched #history

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#borrowed #changes #ever #history #late

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth. ↗

— Eric Anderson

#company #countries #first #first time #history

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#being #black #father #friends #getting

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. ↗

— James Buchan

#good #history #must #naturally #passions

The Thames is liquid history. ↗

— John Burns

#liquid #thames

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#comic #comic books #just #me #means