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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
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The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
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