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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- Long
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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.
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When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
- Enlargement
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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
- Go
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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.
- Start
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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.
- Mind
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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.
- Human Nature
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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?
- People
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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.
- Hope
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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.
- Book
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
- Start
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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.
- Good
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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.
- Evolve
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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
- Pay
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I would pay to do what I do if I had to.
- Trying
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
- Love
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
- Father
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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.
- Love
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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.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
- Embarked
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
- Men
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