Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

About Barbara W. Tuchman:

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1963), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1972), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of chang...

Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. This is accomplished only when the narrative moves steadily ahead, not when it comes to a weary standstill, overloaded...

Barbara W. Tuchman

When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Author Bio

  • NameBarbara W. Tuchman
  • DescriptionAmerican historian and author
  • AliasesBarbara Wertheim Tuchman; Barbara Wertheim
  • BornJanuary 30, 1912
  • DiedFebruary 6, 1989
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Historian; Writer
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For General Non-Fiction; National Book Award