A. Scott Berg Quotes

• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  A. Scott Berg

  Men, Serious Man, Hollywood

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• The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

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  Successful, Editors, Financial

  A. Scott Berg (2013). “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius”, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

  A. Scott Berg

  Workers

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• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Biographies

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• I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

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  Years, Soul, Knows

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• Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

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  Television, Information, Today

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

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  Book, School, Night

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• I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

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  Years, Ideas, Pockets

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• I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

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  People, Interviews, Subjects

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• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

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  Sadness, Son, Men

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• I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

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  Blessed, Son, Parent

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• There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

  A. Scott Berg

  Editors, Broken, Leap Of Faith

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• I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  A. Scott Berg

  Book, Age, Firsts

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