Quotes by Archaeology I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology. Catherine Fisher archaeology enjoyed jobs History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise. Doug Scott archaeology accurate may We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it. Frank Moore Cross archaeology may giving We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. Michael Rostovtzeff archaeology writing helping As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. Michael Ondaatje archaeology busy Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta. Mortimer Wheeler archaeology vendetta science Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows. Mortimer Wheeler archaeology dust blow I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology. Robert Polidori archaeology looks interesting I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology Zbigniew Herbert archaeology transformation writing I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. Penelope Lively get archaeology i-can past