Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Nathaniel Philbrick quotes and sayings page 3 (author). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 31 we have.
“I'll watch anything, from action to art films.”
“I'm a big Stephen King fan.”
“Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.”
“Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.”
“Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.”
“I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.”
“When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.”
“One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.”
“Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.”
“Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.”
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