When I'm Reading For My Own Pleasure,

Real Success Is Finding Your Life Work In The Work That You Love. That's It. Don't Worry About Making A Living, Don't Worry About Popularity Or Fame. Make What You Do ... Count More Than What You Own.

You've Got To Marinate Your Head, In That Time And Culture. You've Got To Become Them." (speaking About Researching, And Reading, And Immersing Yourself In History)

With The Truman Book, I Wrote The Entire Account Of His Experiences In World War I Before Going Over To Europe To Follow His Tracks In The War. When I Got There, There Was A Certain Satisfaction In Finding I Had It Right - It Does Look Like That.

We Are Raising A Generation Of Young Americans Who Are, To A Very Large Degree, Historically Illiterate. It's Not Their Faults. There's No Problem About Enlisting Their Interest In History. None. The Problem Is The Teachers So Often Have No History In Their Background.

I Work Very Hard On The Writing, Writing And Rewriting And Trying To Weed Out The Lumber.