A. Scott Berg Quotes

#1. After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

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#2. The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

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#3. By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

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#4. I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

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#5. There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

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#6. I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

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#7. When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

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#8. I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

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#9. I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

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#10. I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

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#11. Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

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#12. There's a good feeling about them. It's something I like to find in fiction. So many writers master form and technique, but get so little feeling into their work. I think that's important.

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#13. I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

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#14. There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

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#15. Max said little. His essential quality was always to say little, but by powerful empathy for writers and for books to draw out of them what they had it in them to say and to write.

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#16. I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

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