“It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.” WritingChristianReadingViewsImagineExerciseVery GoodOneselfVariousPoint Of ViewHistorianPaganGood Exercise Author:Ramsay MacMullen
“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.” PeopleGivingWritingBookRealityAgeAbleClassGainsEntertainmentExcuseNovelistsHistorianImaginaryFactualBiographersVicarious Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.” WritingLeftStylePoetTouchedHistorianNaturalist Author:Samuel Johnson