#book

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#i #notebooks #writing #years

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#aware #book #existence #human #human existence

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#i #i think #men #read #think

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project. ↗

— David McCullough

#embarked #every #expert #felt #i

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #distractions #down #good #how

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

#also #america #army #book #century

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

#book #clear #compelling #hope #i

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #i #research #should #then

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #book #certain #does #entire

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

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