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

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
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough
- Work
- Real
- Success

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

David McCullough
- Book
- America
- War
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
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

David McCullough
- Past