David McCullough Quotes

United States, Author
July 7, 1933

David Gaub McCullough (/məˈkʌlə/;) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award.

Also known as Historian, Lecturer

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

David McCullough
- Life
- Good
- Book
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

David McCullough
- Time
- Writing

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

David McCullough
- Past
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

David McCullough
- Writing
- Pretty
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

David McCullough
- Past