To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isnt just part of our civic responsibility. To me its an enlargement of the experience of being alive just the way literature or art or music is.
David McCullough
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. Thats why its so hard.
Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole Humanities JulyAug. 2002 Vol. 23No. 4
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill Abigails response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
- David McCullough