Writers and Historians
- John Anderson (genealogist, 1789–1832), Scottish genealogist
- John Anderson (genealogist, fl. 1825), Scottish genealogist
- John Anderson (diplomatic writer) (1795–1845), Scottish diplomatic writer
- John Anderson (classical scholar) (1870–1952), Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford
- John J. Anderson (1956–1989), writer and editor covering computers and technology
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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
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“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
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