Congress Quote by David McCullough

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

— Laurie R. King

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

— Samir Nasri

I was a librarian.

— Beverly Cleary

I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when…

— Peg Kehret

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in…

— Floyd Cooper

I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy -…

— Susan Sarandon

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was…

— Lois Lowry

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and…

— James McAvoy

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people…

— Kenneth Fisher

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick