Erik Larson Quotes

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

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• We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn’t. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

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• There’s something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

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• Reading is such a personal thing to me. I’d much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

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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.

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• I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

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• I thought I’d go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

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• I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

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• I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

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• I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

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• I don’t listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself – kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

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• Hitler was such an anomalous character – he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world… felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

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Erik Larson (12)

Birth:	3rd January, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Erik Larson was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American journalist and author of nonfiction books. He has written a number of bestsellers, such as The Devil in the White City won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category. He Graduated from School of Journalism, Columbia University in 1978. Larson's first newspaper job was with The Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pennsylvania. He later became a features writer for The Wall Street Journal and TIME magazine, where he is still a contributing writer. He has written several books include: Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, Isaac's Storm, Lethal Passage, and The Naked Consumer.

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