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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.

~David Mccullough

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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.

~David Mccullough

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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.

~David Mccullough

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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.

~David Mccullough

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I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

~David Mccullough

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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.

~David Mccullough

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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.

~David Mccullough

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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.

~David Mccullough

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: July 7th, 1933

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