Wisdom on Writing History

• "An endeavor worth a grown man’s time." ~ Shelby Foote

• "Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." ~ Neil Gaiman

• "The two most engaging powers of an author are, to make new things familiar, and familiar things new." ~ Samuel Johnson

• "Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• "There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers." ~ H.L. Mencken

• "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader." ~ Robert Frost

• "Writing a book is a adventure. To begin with it is a toy and amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public." ~ Winston Churchill

• "The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you’ve done a story justice, you’re in the wrong business." ~ Robin McKinley

• "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." ~ George Eliot
  

• "The scholar rarely writes as well as the farmer talks." ~ Henry David Thoreau

• "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." ~ Apostle Paul, Romans 15:4

• "It is history that teaches us to hope." ~ Robert E. Lee