David McCullough Quotes - Page 6

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• We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.

  David McCullough

  Writing, School, Expression

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

  David McCullough

  Country, Patriotic, Patriotism

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Nov 12, 2012

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

  David McCullough

  Weed, Writing, Marijuana

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

  David McCullough

  Courage, Men, Self

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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

  David McCullough

  Character, Stories, Evolve

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, People, Havens

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• Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

  David McCullough

  Country, Addresses, Imagine

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, archives.nbclearn.com. June 9, 2008.

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• When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

  David McCullough

  Reading, Fiction, Mystery

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

  David McCullough

  Art, Book, Reading

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• The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

  David McCullough

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

  David McCullough

  Poet, Companion, Whole Life

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

  David McCullough

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• To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

  David McCullough

  Honor, Noble, Sacred

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

  David McCullough

  Men, Ideas, Leader

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Focus, Needs

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

  David McCullough

  Death, Men, Determined

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• Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

  David McCullough

  Democracy, Library, Portal

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• Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

  David McCullough

  Country, People, History

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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.

  David McCullough

  War, Book, Army

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

  David McCullough

  Enjoy, Feels, Higher

  David McCullough (2007). “Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.

  David McCullough

  Real, Men, Numbers

  Interview, www.bookreporter.com. June 2005.

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• Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

  David McCullough

  War, Character, Men

  Interview, www.bookreporter.com. June 2005.

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• It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

  David McCullough

  War, History, Would Be

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• I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

  David McCullough

  Kindness, Writing, Curiosity

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

  David McCullough

  Growing Up, Moving, Book

  Source: www.neh.gov

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