"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."

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"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."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

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"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."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist."

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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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"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."

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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."

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

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