History of Writing/locations and Timeframes

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or writing:

    “The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Indeed, the Englishman’s history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)