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Write Quotes by David McCullough
- To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,
- Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
- My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear…
- When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include…
- According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do…
- When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
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