Michael Rostovtzeff famous quotes

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
-- Michael Rostovtzeff

#Writing #Helping #Archaeology

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.
-- Michael Rostovtzeff

#Independent #Illustration #Historical

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
-- Michael Rostovtzeff

#War #Long #Political

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.