Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
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Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing…
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People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze…
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Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but…
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
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In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say,…
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British.…
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