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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

  • 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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