"I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10."

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When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

— Douglas Brinkley