Absolute Quote by Thomas Mallon

Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great writers in…

— Fred Kaplan

“The copy editors drank cheap beer and seemed kind of bitter. About everything. But Lincoln felt at home with them. They all read too…

— Rainbow Rowell

My best-known book remains 'Henry and Clara,' a novel about the couple who were with the Lincolns at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.…

— Thomas Mallon

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a…

— David Herbert Donald

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though…

— David Herbert Donald

The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a…

— George Saunders

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who…

— Barack Obama

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate…

— Tony Kushner

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he…

— James Spader

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to…

— Steven Spielberg

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was…

— David Herbert Donald

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time…

— David Herbert Donald