Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrilling. The only hope is to have some real enthusiasm for the book. ... Above all, you need some strong emotional or personal connection to your material.
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points. - Nathaniel Philbrick
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes. - Nathaniel Philbrick
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare. - Nathaniel Philbrick
You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. - Nathaniel Philbrick
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease. - Nathaniel Philbrick
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrillin… - Nathaniel Philbrick
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrillin…
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel. - Nathaniel Philbrick
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, wri… - Nathaniel Philbrick
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, wri…
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single wi… - Nathaniel Philbrick
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single wi…
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