Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on