Erik Larson Quotes

As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, I'm always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now?

Erik Larson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 3, 1954

Topics

TodayI AmWritingBookThinkCare

I just think I'm the average all-American girl.

Meghan McCain

GirlThinkAverageJustAll-American

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

Robert Cormier

YouCensorshipBoyUpsetGetSeldom

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

Rose Namajunas

BestWorldPushYouDownWay

You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.

Mike Daniels

YouAnglesGetKnockedDefensive

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

Ming-Na Wen

LoveFoodParentsRestaurantAlways

If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.

Lois Lowry

TimeMeBookCareQuestionsEnough

I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.

Dianne Reeves

GreatPeopleMeCookbookCookAsked

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Dick Cavett

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Any woman who has attempted to slip a credit card into an inch-deep trouser pocket knows about the annoying puzzle of women's clothing: Pockets rarely work.

Christina Binkley

WorkWomenWomanPuzzleCredit

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Bonnie Hammer

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I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

Bojana Novakovic

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I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.

Anurag Kashyap

TimeWallOutUpRoomFilm

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