David McCullough

“Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.”

“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.”

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

“To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”

“I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.”

“I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.”