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David McCullough

"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."

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"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."

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

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"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?"
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"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."
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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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"First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past."
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"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."
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"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."
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"My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America."
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"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
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"I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene."
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"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
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