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My secret weapon is my wife. She's the best judge. She's a scientist and a natural reader. We've developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it's what saves me from wild digressions.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Best Code Detailed Developed How Judge Manuscript Marks Me Natural Reader Saves Scientist Secret She Think Weapon Wife Wild I Think

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I usually look for stories with barriers to entry, something complex enough that no one else is going to do it.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Barriers Complex Else Enough Entry Going Look Something Stories

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It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

~Erik Larson

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I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better.

~Erik Larson

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I never recreate dialogue. I have often been asked by people, 'You must have made this up because this is dialogue, right?' Anything in my books that is in quotes comes from some kind of living historical document: a letter, a memoir, a court transcript, a newspaper interview.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Anything Asked Because Been Books Court Dialogue Document Historical Interview Kind Letter Living Made Memoir Must Never Newspaper Often People Quotes Recreate Right Some Up You

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Every time I sit down to reread 'War and Peace' - I've read it three times - I feel as though I've lived another life.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Another Down Every Every Time Feel Life Lived Peace Read Sit Though Three Time Times War I Feel

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I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and spend a big chunk of a year reading, or trying to read, 'War and Peace' as it was meant to be read, in Russian, with all that rumbly rocks-on-rocks poetry inherent to the language.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Big Bucket Chunk College Did Dust Entry Inherent Language List Meant Meant To Be Off Peace Poetry Read Reading Really Russian Spend Trying War Would Year

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I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also read Dumas, Dickens, Poe, Conan Doyle, and Cornelius Ryan's war books. As to favorite character: I'm torn between Nancy, on whom I had an unseemly crush, and Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Also Between Books Boy Character Count Crush Dickens Drew Favorite Had Hardy Loved Nancy Never Poe Promiscuous Read Reader Swift Tom Torn War Whom Ryan

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It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

~Erik Larson

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The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is that I'm looking for that very thing. I want an idea that begins, I want a middle that is compelling and will bring readers along, and I definitely want an ending.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Along Begins Bring Choose Compelling Definitely Ending Find Idea Ideas Long Looking Me Middle Readers Reason Stories Takes Thing Very Want Why Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 3rd, 1954

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