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My work was entirely nonfiction.
Without dignity, identity is erased.
I had been writing professionally since 1988
I had been writing professionally since 1988.
For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met.
... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.
The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.
...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.
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.
His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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 have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.
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
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.
When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.
This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went
I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.
I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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 their tormentors suffer.
People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest
I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.