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David McCullough

"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities."

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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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"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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"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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