When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper’s Bluff, they recited… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Largely to gain Nellie’s approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. “Trollope is a great favorite of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“To find the best authors,” he boasted, “is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
