Laura Hillenbrand Thinking Quotations

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

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

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.

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well

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.

It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its ear. The thing that helped me was, instead of spending my life thinking about how I can get over (CFS), now I spend my life thinking about how to get around it, and how to succeed in spite of it.