Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  War, Reading, Book

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

• I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Dozen

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

• My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Strong, Book, Spine

• I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Two, Want

• My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Long, Nightmare

• Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  War, Book, Writing

• There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Writing, Research

  Source: www.achievement.org

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