Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or historian:
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)