Erik Larson Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Erik Larson:
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
~Erik Larson
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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.
~Erik Larson
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I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
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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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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.
~Erik Larson
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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
~Erik Larson
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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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I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
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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.
~Erik Larson
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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
~Erik Larson
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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.
~Erik Larson
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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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