Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes About Books

• There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Writing, Research

  Fuente: www.achievement.org

• I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn about history, they would learn about human nature. They would learn about, "Can the individual make a difference or is it great forces?" Tolstoy is always battling with those large issues. Mostly, a whole world would come alive for them through that book.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  War, Reading, Book

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

• I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Dozen

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

• My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Strong, Book, Spine

• I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Two, Want

• Mi pesadilla recurrente es que algún día me enfrentaré a un panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy y Lyndon Johnson, todos los cuales me dirán todo lo que me equivoqué sobre ellos. Sé que Johnson está por ahí diciendo: '¿Por qué lo que escribiste sobre los Kennedy es el doble de largo que el libro que escribiste sobre mí?

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Long, Nightmare

• Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Guerra, Libro, Escritura

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