Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand

… character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

Character

Reign

…maybe it was better to break a man’s leg than to break his heart.

Heart

Legs

Men

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

Letting Go

Pain

Unbroken

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

Editors

Ideas

Thinking

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

Beautiful

Unbroken

War

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

Book

Horse

Thinking

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

Research

Stories

Tasks

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Essentials

Oxygen

Water

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

Men

Oxygen

Past

Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I’d nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.

Book

Grateful

Rain

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Afternoon

Agents

Appreciation

Aspiration

Atomic Bomb

August

Beautiful

Believe

Bidding

Bombs

Book

Causes

Character

Childhood

Choices

Creative

Creativity

Development

Dignity

Directors

Divine

Divine Love

Dysfunction

Editors

Emotional

Empty

Escaping

Essentials

Fate

Filled

Film

Get Better

Giving

Grateful

Hard Times

Heart

Hollywood

Home

Horse

House

Hydrogen Bomb

Ideas

Identity

Illness

Inches

Islands

Jobs

Lasts

Laughing

Legs

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Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand

… character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

…maybe it was better to break a man’s leg than to break his heart.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

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

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

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

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

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