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Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#believe #bought #did #fits #horrors

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#doubt #i #manage #more #no doubt

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

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. ↗

— David McCullough

#doing #explain #helpful #how #people

I always have the best of everything. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#best #everything #i #i always

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#courtesy #insufferable #lacks #more #than

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. ↗

— David McCullough

#amateur #because #called #fairly #hand

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. ↗

— David McCullough

#academic #been #could #find #go

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. ↗

— David McCullough

#i #i love #love #mean #sides