Quotes about David McCullough

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a...

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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

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With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War...

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When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I...

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When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all...

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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of...

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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope...

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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you...

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The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where...

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The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick?...

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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to...

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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

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