“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.” YearsPersonsSubjectsNewspapersInchesColumnsCrookedRacehorses Author:Laura Hillenbrand
“While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life” WantHardStoriesBodySubjectsResearchInterviewsEscapingExperiencing Things Author:Laura Hillenbrand
“Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it” LooksMatterStoriesSawsSubjectsColdExpectedHonestlyEditorsSubject MatterReception Author:Laura Hillenbrand
“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” ThinkingWellsBookDoneSubjectsOfficeHorseBoxesVersionsPoisonRacingPublishersBox OfficeHorse Racing Author:Laura Hillenbrand
“I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it” SufferingSubjectsOvercoming Author:Laura Hillenbrand
“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” ThinkingKnowsWellsIdeasStoriesFeltSubjectsComfortableEditorsCovering Author:Laura Hillenbrand
“I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf” ThinkingMatterTroubleSubjectsSubject MatterTurf Author:Laura Hillenbrand
