David McCullough Quotes

• Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

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• Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

  David McCullough

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• History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

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• Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

  David McCullough

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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.

  David McCullough

  Topics in History, Life

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• No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

  David McCullough

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• A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

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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.

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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 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

  Topics in History, Love

  Tags in Think, Professionals

• 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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• I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

  David McCullough

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• I love all sides of the work but that doesn’t mean it isn’t hard.

  David McCullough

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

  David McCullough

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• I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

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

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• I’m drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

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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

  Topics in Life

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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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• May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

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David McCullough (32)

Birth:	7th July, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Historian, Lecturer

About

David Gaub McCullough was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. He earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood. McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, Truman and John Adams, have been adapted by HBO into a TV film and a mini-series, respectively. He was chosen to deliver the first annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale University on March 22, 1993.

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