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Erik Larson Quotes

American - Author | January 3, 1954 -

I do think hubris played a role here as well, the belief that the Lusitania was too big and too fast to ever be caught by any submarine, and that, in any case, no U-boat commander would think to attack the ship because to do so would violate the long-held rules governing naval warfare against merchant shipping.

Think Ship Rules Fast Belief Hubris

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.

Day Imagination Writing Go Young

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.

City Devil White Parallel Often

I wouldn't say that I'm an Italian wine connoisseur. I do like red wine. I guess my favorites now are Bordeauxes. French.

Red Wine Now Say Like Red Wine

There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.

Men Name Hats Long Image Something

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.

Writing Tried Many Strip Really

My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it.

Age Optimism People Out Anything

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

Ideas Start Book Never Finish Up

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

Never United Aware United States

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

Me Thought Go See Bookstore Moved

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

Power Darkness People Living Over

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

Myself Pride Remove Having

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