American - Historian | July 7, 1933 -
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.
David McCullough
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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.
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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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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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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
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