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

He 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 were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

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

In 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 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely

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

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

My work was entirely nonfiction.