American - Novelist | January 1, 1940 -
Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.
Donald McCaig
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The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
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I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.
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I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
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I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
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Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.
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I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.
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Believe in your work.
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