David McCullough Quotes

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

Literature has become my life.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

I enjoy reading books.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

I am not a fan of books.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

One of my favorite authors is Michael Ondaatje.

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

To start with, look at all the books.

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.