Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I Had Been Writing Professionally Since 1988

Finally, I Wish To Remember The Millions Of Allied Servicemen And Prisoners Of War Who Lived The Story Of The Second World War. Many Of These Men Never Came Home; Many Others Returned Bearing Emotional And Physical Scars That Would Stay With Them For The Rest Of Their Lives. I Come Away From This Book With The Deepest Appreciation For What These Men Endured, And What They Scarified, For The Good Of Humanity. It Is To Them That This Book {unbroken} Is Dedicated.

At That Moment, Something Shifted Sweetly Inside Him. It Was Forgiveness, Beautiful And Effortless And Complete. For Louie Zamperini, The War Was Over.

Books On Horse Racing Subjects Have Never Done Well, And I Am Told That Publishers Had Come To Think Of Them As The Literary Version Of Box Office Poison

I've Used A Cellphone Exactly Twice. Things Move On. The World Changes. And I Don't Know It

In Terms Of Writing About Horses, I Fell Backwards Into That. I Was Intent On Getting A Ph.d., Becoming A Professor, And Writing On History But I Got Sick 14 Years Ago When I Was 19. Getting Sick Derailed That Plan Completely

I Got Sick When I Was 19, And I'd Been A Really Healthy 19-year-old, So I Don't Have A Lot To Compare It To. Does It Feel Like The Pain After You Give Birth? I Don't Know

I Spoke To My Agent And Learned That A Hollywood Scout Had Seen My Proposal In One Of The Publishing Houses, And Had Faxed It To Hollywood, Where It Was Generating A Lot Of Interest

For Me, Being A Writer Was Never A Choice. I Was Born One. All Through My Childhood I Wrote Short Stories And Stuffed Them In Drawers. I Wrote On Everything. I Didn't Do My Homework So I Could Write

I Have Vertigo. Vertigo Makes It Feel Like The Floor Is Pitching Up And Down. Things Seem To Be Spinning. It's Like Standing On The Deck Of A Ship In Really High Seas.

I Am Disabled, So I Can't Travel, And I Have Not Been To Any Development Meetings, But Gary And The Others Affiliated With The Film Keep Me Updated On Everything.

For 'seabiscuit,' I Interviewed 100 People I Never Met.