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I'd always been interested in maritime history, especially the great liners. I'd have done a book about the Titanic if it hadn't already been done to death by James Cameron and Celine Dion.

~Erik Larson

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I read a book called 'Transatlantic', which is a history of the great shipping lines. Also, of course, I had read about the Titanic and saw Leo drowning at the end of the 'Titanic' movie and all that stuff.

~Erik Larson

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I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fair.' I had nothing better to do. I'd dismissed about a dozen ideas, and I was getting sort of antsy. I started reading, and that's where I got hooked.

~Erik Larson

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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

~Erik Larson

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I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Book Instantly Me Perverse Read Someone Tells Very

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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

Topics: About Also Always Am Anniversary Being Book Books Care Else Feel Former Guarantees Interested Journalist Just Like Now Readers Rule Same Skeptical Somebody Something Subject Think Today Very Why Will Write Writing I Am

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I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' About a third of the way through, I suddenly, finally caught up to the fact that Shirer had been there in Berlin, from 1934 on, and was finally kicked out when the U.S. entered the war.

~Erik Larson

Topics: About Always Been Berlin Book Caught Entered Facing Fact Fall Finally Found Had Kicked Meant Out Read Reich Rise Suddenly Third Through Up War Way William

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What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of materials might be available in archives and so forth, I realized that this book - the research, the writing - would present me with a rare opportunity to explore to a full extent the potential for suspense in a nonfiction work.

~Erik Larson

Topics: After Archives Available Book Dead Doing Drove Explore Extent Forth Full Kinds Materials Me Might Most Nonfiction Opportunity Out Potential Preliminary Present Rare Reading Realized Research Suspense Wake Work Would Writing

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My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Book Emerges Experience Finishes Goal Having He He Or She Historical In The Past Lived Past Point Possibly Produce Reader Reading Rich Sense She Somebody Where

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I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - 'The Wall Street Journal.' I wrote longer pieces, and I got tired of working so hard on stories that had a shelf life of essentially one day. So then I started working on longer magazine pieces and realized then that you might as well be writing a book.

~Erik Larson

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