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Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified."

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf"

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf




Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them."

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer."

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.




Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "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"

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



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live."

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.





Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled."

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs."

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times."

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go."

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb."

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.




Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it"

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means."

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "... character reigns preeminent in determining potential."

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him."

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story"

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen"

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen."

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "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 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.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it."

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "My work was entirely nonfiction."

My work was entirely nonfiction.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "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"

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



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days."

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen."

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe."

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went"

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart."

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over."

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do."

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "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 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



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war."

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met."

For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me"

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden."

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "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."

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.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "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"

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



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it"

I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "I had been writing professionally since 1988"

I had been writing professionally since 1988



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself."

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling."

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.



Laura Hillenbrand Quotes: "We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back, " he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war."

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back, " he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.