All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
History is not what happened. It is what people wrote about what happened.
I've been keeping tour journals since I was 17 years old.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
