Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
– HL Mencken
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- The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality. – Ehab Atalla
- The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is that, one has preserved his potentials while the other has processed his own! – Israelmore Ayivor
- In this hospitable world it is much harder to be unsuccessful than successful. – Debasish Mridha
- Successful people don’t have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit – Santosh Avvannavar
- The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. – Hilaire Belloc
- Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision. – Debasish Mridha
- The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid – Lucian of Samosata
- The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom. – Marty Rubin
- The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. – Henry Adams
- The historian is a prophet looking backwards. – Friedrich Schlegel
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- I think it’s outrageous if a historian has a ‘leading thought’ because it means they will select their material according to their thesis – Antony Beevor
- The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. – Stendhal
- A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint. – Ambeth R Ocampo
- Study the historian before you begin to study the facts. – Edward Hallett Carr
- The historian’s rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. – BH Liddell Hart
- He doesn’t have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He’s a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part. – Marc Maron
- Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed -“ and that happened six full decades after his death. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
- Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian’s mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything. – Richard Marius
- And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened. – Jonathan Stroud
- It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924) – Anatole France
- It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts. – Pat Conroy
- I’m a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. – Sara Sheridan
- If you don’t trust a novelist, who are you going to trust? – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Darling, in this family we don’t call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen. – Pansy SchneiderHorst
- Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. – Paul Auster
- A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die. – Johan Fundin
- Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time. – Roman Payne
- A novelist’s characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. – Anthony Trollope
- For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. – Sara Sheridan
- As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist. – John Green
- The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. – Virginia Woolf
- Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist. – Sara Sheridan
- The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning. – David Mitchell
- As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective. – Sara Sheridan
- A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. – David Foster Wallace
- Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader… – Owen Wister
- No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist. – Haruki Murakami
- To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies. – Val Edward Simone