Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
A source page for quotes linked to A. Scott Berg.
“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
“I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.”
“I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.”
“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 compulsive relaxer.”
“I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’”