A Little Book in C Major, ch. 7, § 21 (1916) - Mencken, H. L. | WIST Quotations
An historian is an unsuccessful novelist. Variants: HISTORIAN. An unsuccessful novelist. [A Book of Burlesques, "The Jazz Webster" (1924)] Historian - An unsuccessful novelist. [Chrestomathy, ch. 30 "Sententiae" (1949)]
