Down Quote by Daniel Levitin

“Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment’s…

— Edwin Black

I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

— Spencer Krug

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,…

— Mary Pilon

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the…

— Barbara Tuchman

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

— H. L. Mencken

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

— Nancy Horan

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

— David McCullough

I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little…

— David Foster Wallace

“As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.”

— Nicholas Carr

I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of years, I…

— H. W. Brands

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

— Seneca the Younger