Write Your Life History Quotes

#1. A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

Natasha Trethewey

#2. Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies..

Jon Krakauer

#3. Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of value, some element of truth and hope and usefulness, from the smashing up of my own youth by the war.

Vera Brittain

#4. Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Watch for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

Sivananda

#7. I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!

Ann Hood

#8. History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

#9. What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

Robert Wilson

#10. Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties - not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela Davises, but moderates who nonetheless got swept up by history's tides during that turbulent time. All that turmoil lends itself to drama, intrigue, and murder.

Kay Kendall

#12. We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.

Al Gore

#13. Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war."
"Political theory would be fine in a perfect world, but in an uncertain one, it is a dangerous gamble.

L.K. Samuels

#14. Write about daily life as you would write history.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

Jodi Picoult

#16. The South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible beings, is becoming more irritated and alarmed.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.

T.C. Boyle

#18. Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..

Adyashanti

#20. If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. In a day and age when, unfortunately, so few write letters or keep a diary any longer, the Wright Papers stand as a striking reminder of a time when that was not the way and of the immense value such writings can have in bringing history to life.

David McCullough

#22. History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.

Mos Def

#23. When I crawled down the rabbit hole into the pivotal event of my life--indeed the pivotal event of my generation--to write "Escape from Saigon - a Novel" I never expected it to be such an emotional journey into a life I left four decades ago.

Dick Pirozzolo

#24. Every step in life tends risky, face it to write a story wen it bcums an History

Bukoye Micheal

#25. For every book that I write ... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

Jojo Moyes

#26. It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Helen Keller

#27. Duty. Honor. He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both. Perhaps he just wants to be warm for once in his life.

George R R Martin

#28. The story we write today will support the next generation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

Gail Collins

#30. You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.

Rick Moody

#31. The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root," and for me the "fierce winds" include the marginalization-the downright segregation-of literature written by people of color.

Bernice L. McFadden

#33. In Western culture, the 'miracles' referenced in scripture seem to have been relegated to the past as if to imply that they were reserved exclusively for certain historical periods.

Mark Ireland

#34. I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

Dan Deacon