David McCullough's Profile
Brief about David McCullough: By info that we know David McCullough was born at 1933-07-07. And also David McCullough is American Historian.
Some David McCullough's quotes. Goto "David McCullough's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: College, Life, ReadTo 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.
Tags: Art, History, MusicWhen 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.
Tags: Army, Read, RealizedWith the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.
Tags: Book, Follow, WarEvery book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
Tags: Book, Felt, JourneyHistory is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
Tags: History, Times, WhyI work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
Tags: Hard, Work, WritingA nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
Tags: Individual, Nation, PastYou can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
Tags: Democracy, Full, HistoryPeople 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.
Tags: Show, Stop, WalkFirst of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
Tags: Lived, Nobody, PastI just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
Tags: Education, Father, MotherI would pay to do what I do if I had to.
Tags: PayI'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
Tags: Character, Evolve, StoriesI'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
Tags: Good, Life, TodayIn 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.
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