Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Integrity, Writing, Looks

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

• I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Sorry, Kids, Home

  Source: www.achievement.org

• 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

• I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing about, to expose them, to label them, to stereotype them, but instead to make them come alive for the reader with all their strengths and their flaws intact.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.achievement.org

• When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the writing. So I don't have to face a blank piece of paper. I can look at this as a quote that I have from somewhere.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Writing, Faces, Looks

  Source: www.achievement.org

• The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Writing, Technology, Errors

• 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

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