Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met.

In 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 person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

The 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 suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

I had been writing professionally since 1988