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Image, I am a compulsive worker. But I’m also a compulsive relaxer.

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

—A. Scott Berg

Image, When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister’s

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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.

—A. Scott Berg

Image, I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so

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

—A. Scott Berg

Image, By the ’40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By

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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

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Image, I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my

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I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

—A. Scott Berg

Image, Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn’t so much

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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

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

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

—A. Scott Berg

Image, The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their

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

—A. Scott Berg

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Image, There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made

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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

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

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

—A. Scott Berg

Image, I’m so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been

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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

Image, I developed a mania for Fitzgerald – by the time I’d graduated

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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

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

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

—A. Scott Berg

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