"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."

Legacy, History, Writing, Generations, Respect

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"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."

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"And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none."

John Green, American Author

Legacy, Story, Life, Memory

"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Legacy, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Happiness

"His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Legacy, Courage, Truth, Resistance

"Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Legacy, Word, Writing, Memory, Life

"Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Legacy, Fame, Poetry, Memory

"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Legacy, Death, Memory, Love

"People are so busy making money that they forget they will leave it all behind. When we depart, we only take with us the good we do in this world."

R.V.M., Indian Author

Legacy, Wealth, Life, Truth

"At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Legacy, Parenting, Future, Responsibility

"Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written."

Alice Walker, American Author

Legacy, Women, Future, Movement

"Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."

Literature

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

Writing

"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action."

Storytelling

"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."

Creativity

"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"

Culture

"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."

Character

"As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective."

Literature

"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Identity

"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."

Narrative

"Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe."

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