A. Scott Berg Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
-
“I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“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.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“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.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“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.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“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.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
-- A. Scott Berg -
“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.”
-- A. Scott Berg
You may also like:
-
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Author -
Arthur Hiller
Television Director -
Charles August Lindbergh
Politician -
Charles Lindbergh
Aviator -
Edmund Morris
Writer -
Ernest Hemingway
Author -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author -
John Logan
Playwright -
Katharine Hepburn
Actress -
Marie Arana
Author -
Maxwell Perkins
Editor -
Rick Atkinson
Author -
Samuel Goldwyn
Film Producer -
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Film Producer -
Thomas Wolfe
Novelist -
Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President -
Zelda Fitzgerald
Novelist -
Garrett Graff
Editor -
Tim Bevan
Film producer