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"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."
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"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"I'm pretty outspoken."
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"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."
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"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
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"I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television."
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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."
Life
"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."
History
"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."
People
"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."
Work
"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
History
"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
Time
"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."
Hope
"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."
War
"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
Temptation
"I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist."
Character
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