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I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. -- Ken Follett
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me. -- Donald Kagan
We travel to ancient times by reading history books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts". -- Andrew Roberts
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress. -- Stanley Baldwin
I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people. -- Warren Mundine
There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West. -- Marilynne Robinson
I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day. -- Bernie Sanders
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing. -- Thomas Sowell
My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble. -- Nick Harkaway
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. -- David Chang
I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting. -- John D. Long
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. -- Thomas Hardy
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. -- Tim Vine
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. -- F. Sionil Jose
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. -- Andrew Motion
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. -- John Sharp Williams
Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. -- Cyndi Lauper
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. -- Tony Judt
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. -- Bruno Tonioli
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. -- Daniel Silva
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small. -- Peter Ackroyd
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd. -- Erik Larson
I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting. -- James McAvoy
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. -- Ken Burns
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. -- A. S. Byatt
War makes good history but peace is poor reading. -- Thomas Hardy
By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. -- Seth Klarman
Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot. -- George W. Bush
I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it. -- Mario Savio
I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting. -- John D. Long
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. -- Dan Barber
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God -- Leonard Ravenhill
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress. -- Uma Thurman
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. -- Daniel Handler
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers. -- Ronald Reagan
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of. -- Dale Jamieson
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. -- Jeanette Winterson
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable. -- Vir Das
My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him. -- Willie Geist
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history. -- Cynthia Ozick
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. -- Emilie Autumn
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. -- Antonia Fraser
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History) -- David McCullough
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries. -- David McCullough
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. -- Norman Spinrad
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph. -- David Gross
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. -- Wilfred Owen
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves. -- Usher
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture. -- David Plotz
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world. -- Jostein Gaarder
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds. -- Shakira
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. -- Paul Merton
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading. -- Natasha Trethewey
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. -- Lynn Abbey

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