“I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.”
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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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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.
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
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