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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

~Barbara W. Tuchman

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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

~Barbara W. Tuchman

Topics: Any Capacity Degree Had Stifled Taken Would Writing

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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

~Barbara W. Tuchman

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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

~Barbara W. Tuchman

Topics: Around Barbara Door Everybody Female Housewife Just Just Something Locked Man Ordinary Past People People Say Professional Say Something Wanted Writer You

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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

~Barbara W. Tuchman

Topics: After Always Beginning Book Came Children Combined Had Home Husband More Two Wanted War Which While Work Writing

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When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

~Barbara W. Tuchman

Topics: Children Could Days Full Gradually Morning Only School Small Spend Spent Then Very Were Work Worked

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 30th, 1912

Died: February 6th, 1989

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