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

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

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"An array of behavioral decision options establishes opportunities for personal growth. The knowledgeable choices that a person makes in a constantly varying physical setting and capricious social milieu reflect their character, and their evolving personality continues to affect their social and intellectual growth."

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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."

Argument

"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."

Pretty

"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

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

Temptation

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

History

"With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that."

War

"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

"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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"Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project."

Learning

"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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