You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history. David McCullough Read Quote
First of all, you can make the argument that there’s no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. David McCullough Read Quote
There’s an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. David McCullough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. David McCullough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. David McCullough Read Quote
