Quotes by Candice Millard

About Candice Millard:

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.
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She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

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The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than...

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Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antisept...

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The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package," Ro...

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

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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

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Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

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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.

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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.

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

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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers...

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I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I...

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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

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

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I'm very interested in science.

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Author Bio

  • NameCandice Millard
  • DescriptionAmerican historian
  • Born1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionHistorian
  • WorksDestiny Of The Republic: A Tale Of Madness, Medicine And The Murder Of A President