Quotes about histories
histories mainly swift
I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
histories invent ladies middle mountain travelers
I had read the histories of mountain climbers, of suffragette captains, of travelers to the Middle East... all the ladies who went to the Middle East. I'd like to go myself. I didn't invent anything in my book. I didn't need to. Marguerite Young
histories history logic men natural
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Francis Bacon
histories novels people period time written
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times. Alan Furst