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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?

~Erik Larson

Topics: Arsenal Been Berlin Course Darkness Era Fell Germany Hindsight Like Living Our Over People Power Would

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To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'

~Erik Larson

Topics: Crisis Everyone Frankly Hiroshima John Me Needs Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Our Our Time Secret Time Weapons

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Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives as a way of stringing together the interesting stories that people have kind of forgotten and that are kind of surprising.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Forgotten Interesting Kidding Kind Love Main Most Narratives Passion People Some Stories Surprising Telling Those Together Using Way Ways I Love

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I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Always Kind Looking Neurotic Sign Spooky Supernatural Way Writer

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Anytime you look at someone in detail, you're putting the camera on that person. What I typically look for is one or two or three really strong characters who will hold the narrative throughout the work.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Anytime Camera Characters Detail Hold Look Narrative One Or Two Person Putting Really Someone Strong Three Throughout Two Who Will Work You

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The head of the hurricane research division, Hugh Willoughby, told me that hurricanologists can predict the behavior of storms if those storms behave predictably.

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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.

~Erik Larson

Topics: About Books David Day Favorite Flood Go His Horseback How Imagination Lit Might Mornings Nonfiction One Day Roosevelt Teddy Though Writing Young

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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.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Age Anything Boundless Could Era Favorite Felt Gilded Had Optimism Out Overlap People Progressive Sense So-Called Spans Tried Wanted Zone

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Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He's a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Captain Crew Doing Forth Found Growing Guy Handsome He Hero Him His Humane Increasingly Research Started Submarine Sympathetic Thomas Turner Villain William Young Young Guy

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The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Because Era Hubris Love Monument Optimism Tragedy Where I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 3rd, 1954

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