Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or historian:
“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The historian must have ... some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)