Erik Larson Quotes

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then I shuffle all the paragraphs and lay them out as they come. As I arrange and hold them next to each other, very quickly a natural structure for the chapter presents itself.

Erik Larson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

John Bradshaw

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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.

Max Beesley

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But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was.

Stephen Collins

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There is no question: the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats.

Steve Mnuchin

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In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

Robin Sloan

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You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

Rosamund Pike

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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Ruben Blades

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I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.

Martina McBride

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At university - when I was supposed to be studying biochemistry - I had tried to write a children's book about a boy and a wolf cub, and there was a paragraph in that which was from the wolf's point of view.

Michelle Paver

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I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.

Luis Suarez

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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

Lou Holtz

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I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

Joy Harjo

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