Candice Millard Quotes

Candice Millard — American Writer born on December 30, 1968,

Candice Sue Millard is an American writer and journalist. She is a former writer and editor for National Geographic and the author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, a history of the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition, Theodore Roosevelt's exploration of the Amazon Rainforest in 1913 and 1914. The River of Doubt, published in 2005 by Doubleday, was a New York Times Best Seller. Millard's second book, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, was released in September 2011, and is also a New York Times Best Seller... (wikipedia)

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.