Laura HillenbrandI was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved t… ▶372LoveReading
Laura HillenbrandI'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it351Truth
Laura Hillenbrand...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.377Love
Laura HillenbrandI 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.291Humor
Laura HillenbrandSuch beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for hi… ▶357DeathLoveThought
Laura HillenbrandI just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.313Thought
Laura HillenbrandWithout dignity, identity is erased. ✨ Laura Hillenbrand (2010). Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, p.183, Random House281Humanity
Laura HillenbrandI think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf336Thought
Laura HillenbrandBut with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story314Truth
Laura HillenbrandMy illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.261Life
Laura HillenbrandFor 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 homewo… ▶283Reflection
Laura HillenbrandI am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can s… ▶305Life
Laura HillenbrandThe 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 they make their tormentors s… ▶241DeathSadness
Laura HillenbrandThough all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to… ▶231Hope
Laura HillenbrandI 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 know276Sadness
Laura HillenbrandBooks 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 poison222ReadingThought
Laura HillenbrandAt that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over. ✨ Laura Hillenbrand (… ▶234Time
Laura HillenbrandWhile it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the inte… ▶201LifeTime
Laura HillenbrandIn terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was … ▶267Thought
Laura HillenbrandI 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 … ▶202Thought
Laura HillenbrandI've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it2710Love
Laura HillenbrandI have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me247Truth
Laura Hillenbrand... character reigns preeminent in determining potential. ✨ Laura Hillenbrand (2003). Seabiscuit: An American Legend, p.408, Ballantine Books237Reading
Laura HillenbrandIn 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a p… ▶182Reading
Laura HillenbrandFatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.239Life
Laura HillenbrandI 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.206Sadness
Laura HillenbrandWhen 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 Hillenb… ▶173LoveThought
Laura HillenbrandI 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 (2010). Unbroken: A World War II… ▶162Thought
Laura HillenbrandHe had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books … ▶141ReadingSadness
Laura HillenbrandI 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 intere… ▶218Death
