"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."

-- David McCullough

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“When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.”
“I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.”
“Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.”
“To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.”
“Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.”
“I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.”
“Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.”
“It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.12, Da Capo Press

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