"Nothing is more satisfying than to write a…" — Barbara Tuchman

"Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence."

— Barbara Tuchman

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68 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy…
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard,…
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose…
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory…
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material,…

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From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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