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> [With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/with-the-audience-i-write-for-i-want-to-make-sure-that-the-reader-is/)

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## More by Russell Freedman

> [I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-visited-the-archeological-site-at-the-northern-tip-of-newfoundland/)

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> [Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/anyone-writing-a-picture-book-biography-of-lincoln-has-a-different/)

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> [If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/if-you-re-doing-a-good-job-as-author-then-you-get-the-reader-to/)

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> [I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids who want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-get-letters-from-two-kinds-of-readers-history-buffs-who-love-to/)

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> [You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/you-always-want-to-know-what-happened-before-you-it-s-a-human/)

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> [The first encounter was when the Vikings came across 10 Indians taking naps under their overturned canoes - and the Vikings killed them. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/the-first-encounter-was-when-the-vikings-came-across-10-indians/)

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> [“By the end of 1914, after less than five months of combat, more than 600,000 soldiers on both sides had been killed on the Western Front.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/by-the-end-of-1914-after-less-than-five-months-of-combat-more-than/)

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> [I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-like-to-write-about-things-that-fascinate-me-because-i-believe-that/)

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> [I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-sensed-that-confucius-is-an-interesting-character-this-is-someone/)

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> [“Batteries of machine guns firing point-blank at assaulting troops could turn an infantry attack into a mass suicide.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/batteries-of-machine-guns-firing-point-blank-at-assaulting-troops/)

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> [I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-didn-t-learn-chinese-to-write-confucius-that-would-ve-been-a/)

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> [“I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-have-mo-prejudice-against-the-southern-people-they-are-just-what-we/)

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> [“In the first days of mobilization there was of course a lot of enthusiasm,” recalled Robert Poustis, who was a French student at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/in-the-first-days-of-mobilization-there-was-of-course-a-lot-of/)

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> [I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/i-think-that-today-s-books-in-which-every-quote-every-conversation-is/)

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> [Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-freedman/thomas-jefferson-once-said-women-shouldn-t-wrinkle-their-pretty/)

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