Famous quote by David McCullough

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"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"

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This quote is written / told by David McCullough somewhere between July 7, 1933 and today. He/she was a famous Historian from USA. The author also have 25 other quotes.

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"

"Years teach us more than books"