A. Scott Berg Quotes

A. Scott Berg is a distinguished historian and biographer, known for his meticulously researched and engaging biographies of notable figures. His works shed light on the lives and accomplishments of individuals such as Charles Lindbergh, Katharine Hepburn, and Woodrow Wilson, offering readers deep insights into their personal and historical contexts.

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.

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.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dea... -A. Scott Berg

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

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'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.

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 read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, ... -A. Scott Berg

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

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.

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.

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 don't know of a soul who packed more living into... -A. Scott Berg

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

After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

I think a biography is only as interesting as the ... -A. Scott Berg

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

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsiv... -A. Scott Berg

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

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