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David Mccullough Quotes
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project. - David Mccullough Quotes
First of all, you can make the argument that theres no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. - David Mccullough Quotes
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. - David Mccullough Quotes
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries. - David Mccullough Quotes
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. - David Mccullough Quotes
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. - David Mccullough Quotes
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. - David Mccullough Quotes
I love all sides of the work but that doesnt mean it isnt hard. - David Mccullough Quotes
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. - David Mccullough Quotes
I would pay to do what I do if I had to. - David Mccullough Quotes
Im drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. - David Mccullough Quotes
Im very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. - David Mccullough Quotes
In time I began to understand that its when you start writing that you really find out what you dont know and need to know. - David Mccullough Quotes
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. - David Mccullough Quotes
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its about Washington and the army and the war. Its the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. - David Mccullough Quotes
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. - David Mccullough Quotes
No harms done to history by making it something someone would want to read. - David Mccullough Quotes
Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I wanted to do in my life. - David Mccullough Quotes
People are so helpful. People will stop what theyre doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. - David Mccullough Quotes
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David Mccullough Quotes
That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isnt well written, it isnt going to be read, and if it isnt read its going to die. - David Mccullough Quotes
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? - David Mccullough Quotes
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. - David Mccullough Quotes
Theres an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. - David Mccullough Quotes
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. - David Mccullough Quotes
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isnt just part of our civic responsibility. To me its an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. - David Mccullough Quotes
What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs Id seen in the Library of Congress. - David Mccullough Quotes
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. - David Mccullough Quotes
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. - David Mccullough Quotes
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. - David Mccullough Quotes
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