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best historical writing requires not only a precise knowledge of the incidents or facts that laborious research has collected, but the capacity to weave the matter so as to form a lasting fabric which discloses character and motive.
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Writing historical stories points to note
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
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― Different Seasons
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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