For 'seabiscuit,' I Interviewed 100 People I

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.

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

While It's Really Hard To Do, At The Same Time, I'm Escaping My Body, Which I Really Want To Do. I'm Living Someone Else's Life. I Get Very Intensely Into The Story, Into The Interviews And The Research. I'm Experiencing Things Along With My Subjects. I Have A Freedom I Don't Have In My Physical Life

Dignity Is As Essential To Human Life As Water, Food, And Oxygen. The Stubborn Retention Of It, Even In The Face Of Extreme Physical Hardship, Can Hold A Man's Soul In His Body Long Past The Point At Which The Body Should Have Surrendered It.

I Think Authors Can Get Into Trouble Viewing The Subject Matter As Their Turf