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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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"All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm."
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"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."
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"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."
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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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"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."
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"I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want."
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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
"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 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?"
History
"I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene."
Love
"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
"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
History
"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."
Life
"When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book."
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"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."
People
"May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
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