Quotes from A. Scott Berg

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.