Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Quotes to Explore

Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

Taylor Sheridan
- World
- Explore
- Still
The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Maggie Gallagher
- Power
- Opportunity
- Vision
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

C. K. Williams
- Poetry
- Write
- Poems
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

Sam Kean
- Writing
- Future
- Energy
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

Paolo Sorrentino
- Like
- Step
- Rome
I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

Vanessa Bayer
- Home
- Fun
- Just