Howard Zinn Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.

  Howard Zinn

  Writing, People, Energy

• What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Writing, Play, People

• The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

  Howard Zinn

  Writing, Doe, Found

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Politics of History”, p.476, eBookIt.com

• I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.

  Howard Zinn

  Teacher, Attitude, Teaching

  "Howard Zinn: 'History as a Political Act'". Interview with Raymond Lotta, revcom.us. December 20, 1998.

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