276 Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.